Inventing Film Studies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082234307X ISBN 13: 9780822343073

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2008

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Review:

“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

“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, 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 Method

From the Author:

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 Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema.

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 082234307X
• ISBN 13: 9780822343073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Grieveson