{"product_id":"scenes-of-instruction-dana-polan-9780520249639","title":"Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dana Polan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520249631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520249639\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.61h x 6.12w x 1.00d","brand":"Dana Polan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919945629951,"sku":"9780520249639","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_30207747-4c8f-45ff-82fb-f5d56ce9097d.jpg?v=1680812780","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/scenes-of-instruction-dana-polan-9780520249639","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}