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Inventing film studies /

Title By: Wasson, Haidee, 1970- [Editor.] | Grieveson, Lee [Editor.]
Material type: BookPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.Description: xxxii, 446 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780822342892; 9780822343073 (pbk. : alk. paper)Program: MMC926Subject(s): Motion pictures -- Study and teaching -- United States | Motion pictures -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain | Film criticism -- United States -- History | Film criticism -- Great Britain -- HistoryDDC classification: 791.43071/073
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Offers insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. This volume provides examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. It also considers the future directions of film study in a changing technological and cultural environment.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-424) and index.

Offers insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. This volume provides examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. It also considers the future directions of film study in a changing technological and cultural environment.

Acknowledgments Haidee Wasson and Lee Grieveson / The Academy and Motion Pictures Making Cinema Knowable Lee Grieveson / Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct; Mark Lynn Anderson / Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media Expert; Zoe Druick / "Reaching the Multimillions": Liberal Internationalism and the Establishment of Documentary Film; Dana Polan / Young Art, Old Colleges: Early Episodes in the American Study of Film Making Cinema Educational Haidee Wasson / Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinema's Changing Object; Charles R. Acland / Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film Council Movement, 1946-1957; Michael Zryd / Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America; Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen / From Cinephilia to Film Studies Making Cinema Legible Haden Guest / Experimentation and Innovation in Three American Film Journals of the 1950s; Philip Rosen / Screen and 1970s Film Theory; Amelie Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Patricia White, and Sharon Willis / (Re)Inventing Camera Obscura; Mark Betz / Little Books Making and Remaking Cinema Studies Alison Trope / Footstool Film School: Home Entertainment as Home Education; D. N. Rodowick / Dr. Strange Media, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Theory Appendix: Resources; Stephen Groening / Timeline for a History of Anglophone Film Culture and Film Studies; Selected Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index.

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