Grieveson / Wasson Inventing Film Studies

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8867-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten

A collection of institution-centered essays comprising a history of film studies as a discipline.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grieveson, Lee

Wasson, Haidee

Weitere Mitwirkende

Anderson, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

The Academy and Motion Pictures / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson xi

Making Cinema Knowable

Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct / Lee Grieveson 3

Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media Expert / Mark Lynn Anderson 38

"Reaching the Multimillions": Liberal Internationalism and the Establishment of Documentary Film / Zoe Druick 66

Young Art, Old Colleges: Early Episodes in the American Study of Film / Dana Polan 93

Making Cinema Educational

Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinema's Changing Object / Haidee Wasson 121

Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film Council Movement, 1946-1957 / Charles R. Acland 149

Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America / Michael Zryd 182

From Cinephilia to Film Studies / Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 217

Making Cinema Legible

Experimentation and Innovation in Three American Film Journals of the 1950s / Haden Guest 235

Screen and 1970s Film Theory / Philip Rosen 264

(Re)Inventing Camera Obscura / Amelia Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Patricia White, and Sharon Willis 298

Little Books / Mark Betz 319

Making and Remaking Cinema Studies

Footstool Film School: Home Entertainment as Home Education / Alison Trope 353

Dr. Strange Media, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Theory / D. N. Rodowick 374

Appendix

Timeline for a History of Anglophone Film Culture and Film Studies / Stephen Groening 399

Selected Bibliography 419

About the Contributors 425

Index 429

Über Autor(innen)

Lee Grieveson is Reader in Film Studies and Director of the Graduate Programme in Film Studies at University College London. He is the author of Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America and a co-editor of The Silent Cinema Reader.Haidee Wasson is Associate Professor of Cinema at Concordia University. She is the author of Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema.