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Scenes of instruction : the beginnings of the U.S. study of film
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Scenes of instruction : the beginnings of the U.S. study of film

Dana B. Polan

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"An Ahmanson foundation book in the humanities"--P. [4] of cover.

Contents

First forays in film education : the pedagogy of photoplay composition at Columbia University
A brief interlude as the movies march on : Terry Ramsaye and the New School for Social Research
"Younger art, old college, happy union" : Harvard goes into the business and art of the movies
Between academia and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences : the University of Southern California ventures into the cinema
Politics as pedagogy, pedagogy as politics : the rather brief moment in time of Harry Alan Potamkin
Appreciations of cinema : Syracuse discovers film art
Cinematic diversions in sociology : Frederic Thrasher in the world of film appreciation
Middlebrow translations of highbrow philosophy : the film Fandom of the 1930s Great Books intellectuals.

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