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Inventing Film Studies
Grieveson
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Description for Inventing Film Studies
Paperback. Offers insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. This volume provides examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. It also considers the future directions of film study in a changing technological and cultural environment. Editor(s): Grieveson, Lee; Wasson, Haidee. Num Pages: 480 pages, 31 illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 228 x 29. Weight in Grams: 662.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
661g
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822343073
SKU
V9780822343073
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About Grieveson
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Inventing Film Studies
This is the best film book that I've 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, ... Read more