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

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 Compo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Polan, Dana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 at Harvard; and attempts by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to create programs of professionalized education at the University of Sou.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (420 pages)
ISBN:9780520940208
0520940202