Film Education: Dana Polan’s Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film
About the Book
The most important book in film studies published so far in the United States during this decade.”—Journal Of The American Stds Assoc Of Texas
“Polan’s book offers the first pedagogical history of the emergence of film studies courses within the American university system prior to World War II, based on an amazing wealth of little known or even unknown material. It also offers an equally valuable intellectual history in which early film studies courses clarify the theoretical frameworks governing the humanities and social sciences in higher education. And the writing is sophisticated yet accessible and engaging.”—Richard Abel, author of Americanizing the Movies and “Movie-Mad” Audiences, 1910-1914
Table of Contents
Introduction: Toward a Disciplinary History of Film Studies
5. Politics as Pedagogy, Pedagogy as Politics: The Rather Brief Moment in Time of Harry Alan Potamkin
6. Appreciations of Cinema: Syracuse Discovers Film Art
7. Cinematic Diversions in Sociology: Frederic Thrasher in the World of Film Appreciation
8. Middlebrow Translations of Highbrow Philosophy: The Film Fandom of the 1930s Great Books Intellectuals
Notes
Index