Table of Contents:
  • The Academy and motion pictures / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson
  • Cinema studies and the conduct of conduct / Lee Grieveson
  • Taking liberties : the Payne Fund studies and the creation of the media expert / Mark Lynn Anderson
  • "Reaching the multimillions" : liberal internationalism and the establishment of documentary film / ZoĆ« Druick
  • Young art, old colleges : early episodes in the American study of film / Dana Polan
  • Studying movies at the museum : the Museum of Modern art and cinema's changing object / Haidee Wasson
  • Classrooms, clubs, and community circuits : cultural authority and the Film Council movement, 1946-1957 / Charles R. Acland
  • Experimental film and the development of film study in America / Michael Zryd
  • From cinephilia to film studies / Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen
  • Experimentation and innovation in three American film journals of the 1950s / Haden Guest
  • Screen and 1970s film theory / Philip Rosen
  • (Re)inventing Camera obscura / Amelie Hastie [and others]
  • Little books / Mark Betz
  • Footstool film school : home entertainment as home education / Alison Trope
  • Dr. Strange media, or how I learned to stop worrying and love film theory / D.N. Rodowick
  • Timeline for a history of Anglophone film culture and film studies / Stephen Groening.