Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film

by Dana Polan

This engaging book chronicles the first classes on the art and industry of cinema and the colorful pioneers who taught, wrote, and advocated on behalf of the new art form. Using extensive archival research, Dana Polan looks at, for example, Columbia University’s early classes on Photoplay Composition; lectures at the New School for Social Research by famed movie historian Terry Ramsaye; the film industry’s sponsorship of a business course on film...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520249631
• ISBN13: 9780520249639
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.6"