Inventing Film Studies de Lee Grieveson

Inventing Film Studies

Lee Grieveson

Haidee Wasson

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 noi 2008

"Inventing Film Studies" offers original and provocative insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. Many scholars have linked the origins of the discipline to late-1960s developments in the academy such as structuralist theory and student protest. Yet this collection reveals the broader material and institutional forces--both inside and outside of the university--that have long shaped the field. Beginning with the first investigations of cinema in the early twentieth century, this volume provides detailed examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. The contributors explain how multiple instantiations of film study have had a tremendous influence on the methodologies, curricula, modes of publication, and professional organizations that now constitute the university-based discipline. Extending the historical insights into the present, contributors also consider the directions film study might take in changing technological and cultural environments. "Inventing Film Studies" shows how the study of cinema has developed in relation to a constellation of institutions, technologies, practices, individuals, films, books, government agencies, pedagogies, and theories. Contributors illuminate the connections between early cinema and the social sciences, between film programs and nation-building efforts, and between universities and U.S. avant-garde filmmakers. They analyze the evolution of film studies in relation to the Museum of Modern Art, the American Film Council movement of the 1940s and 1950s, the British Film Institute, influential journals, cinephilia, and technological innovations past and present. Taken together, the essays in this collection reveal the rich history and contemporary vitality of film studies.
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"Contributors" Charles R. Acland, Mark Lynn Anderson, Mark Betz, ZoE Druick, Lee Grieveson, Stephen Groening, Haden Guest, Amelie Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Laura Mulvey, Dana Polan,
D. N. Rodowick, Philip Rosen, Alison Trope, Haidee Wasson, Patricia White, Sharon Willis,
Peter Wollen, Michael Zryd

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AcknowledgmentsHaidee Wasson and Lee Grieveson / The Academy and Motion PicturesMaking 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; Zoë 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 FilmMaking Cinema Educational Haidee Wasson / Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinemas Changing Object; Charles R. Acland / Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film Council Movement, 19461957; Michael Zryd / Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America; Laura Mulvey &Peter Wollen / From Cinephilia to Film StudiesMaking 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 BooksMaking and Remaking Cinema StudiesAlison 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 TheoryAppendix: Resources; Stephen Groening / Timeline for a History of Anglophone Film Culture and Film Studies; Selected Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index

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This is the best film book that Ive read in years. It covers the history of film studies, certainly the least historicized discipline in the humanities and social sciences. Contributors show that the field dates at least to the early twentieth century and that it can be traced through a number of institutions: not just the academy but also government, the museum, and the publishing industry, to name just three. Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson have produced a book that will change the way film scholars think about their field.Eric Smoodin, co-editor of Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and MethodThis collection contributes new understandings to the history of film studies, particularly regarding the disciplines development in the humanities and its gradual abandonment of the methodological practices of the social sciences, in which it had its origins. Inventing Film Studies will be welcomed by academics working in cinema studies, and it will provide new entrants to the field with an important introduction to the history of their study.Richard Maltby, author of Hollywood Cinema

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"This collection contributes new understandings to the history of film studies, particularly regarding the discipline's development in the humanities and its gradual abandonment of the methodological practices of the social sciences, in which it had its origins." Inventing Film Studies" will be welcomed by academics working in cinema studies, and it will provide new entrants to the field with an important introduction to the history of their study."--Richard Maltby, author of "Hollywood Cinema"