Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. The Academy and Motion Pictures xi
5. Making Cinema Knowable
6. Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct 1
7. Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media Expert 38
8. “Reaching the Multimillions”: Liberal Internationalism and the Establishment of Documentary Film 66
9. Young Art, Old Colleges: Early Episodes in the American Study of Film 93
10. Ma king Cinema Educational
11. Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinema’s Changing Object 121
12. Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film Council Movement, 1946–1957 149
13. Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America 182
14. From Cinephilia to Film Studies 217
15. Making Cinema Legible
16. Experimentation and Innovation in Three American Film Journals of the 1950s 235
17. Screen and 1970s Film Theory 264
18. (Re)Inventing Camera Obscura 298
19. Little Books 319
20. Making and Remaking Cinema Studies
21. Footstool Film School: Home Entertainment as Home Education 353
22. Dr. Strange Media, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Theory 374
23. Appendix: Timeline for a History of Anglophone Film Culture and Film Studies 399
24. Selected Bibliography 419
25. About the Contributors 425
26. Index 429