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L Guevarra <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear Screen-L:


The University of California Press  is pleased to announce the publication of:

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

Dana Polan is Professor of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the 
Arts, New York University. Among his books are _Jane Campion, Pulp 
Fiction, In a Lonely Place,_ and the forthcoming titles _The 
Sopranos_ and _The French Chef._

http://go.ucpress.edu/Polan

"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_

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 Southern 
California, Stanford, and elsewhere. Polan examines a wide range of 
thinkers who engaged with the new art of film, from Marxist Harry 
Alan Potamkin to sociologist Frederic Thrasher to Great Books 
advocates Mortimer Adler and Mark Van Doren.

Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is 
available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Polan


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Lolita Guevarra
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University of California Press
Tel. 510.643.4738 | Fax 510.643.7127
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