Acknowledgments ix

The Academy and Motion Pictures / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson xi

Making Cinema Knowable

Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct / Lee Grieveson 3

Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media Expert / Mark Lynn Anderson 38

"Reaching the Multimillions": Liberal Internationalism and the Establishment of Documentary Film / Zoe Druick 66

Young Art, Old Colleges: Early Episodes in the American Study of Film / Dana Polan 93

Making Cinema Educational

Studying Movies at the Museum: The Museum of Modern Art and Cinema's Changing Object / Haidee Wasson 121

Classrooms, Clubs, and Community Circuits: Cultural Authority and the Film Council Movement, 1946-1957 / Charles R. Acland 149

Experimental Film and the Development of Film Study in America / Michael Zryd 182

From Cinephilia to Film Studies / Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 217

Making Cinema Legible

Experimentation and Innovation in Three American Film Journals of the 1950s / Haden Guest 235

Screen and 1970s Film Theory / Philip Rosen 264

(Re)Inventing Camera Obscura / Amelia Hastie, Lynne Joyrich, Patricia White, and Sharon Willis 298

Little Books / Mark Betz 319

Making and Remaking Cinema Studies

Footstool Film School: Home Entertainment as Home Education / Alison Trope 353

Dr. Strange Media, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Theory / D. N. Rodowick 374

Appendix

Timeline for a History of Anglophone Film Culture and Film Studies / Stephen Groening 399

Selected Bibliography 419

About the Contributors 425

Index 429

Lee Grieveson

Mark Anderson

Zoë Druick

Dana Polan

Charles R. Acland

Michael Zryd

Laura Mulvey

Haden Guest

Philip Rosen

Amelie Hastie

Mark Betz

Alison Trope

David Rodowick

Stephen Groening

Haidee Wasson

Peter Wollen

Lynne Joyrich

Patricia White

Sharon Willis

“Inventing Film Studies goes a long way toward redressing claims by historians such as Eric Smoodin that film studies is one of the most under-historicized disciplines in the humanities. In conjunction with other recently published works, the pluralistic history of motion picture study is beginning to be mapped out by Grieveson and Wasson’s excellent anthology.” — Stephen Michael Charbonneau, International Journal of Communication

“Inventing Film Studies is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of film studies as an academic endeavor. . . . [I]t clearly sets the agenda for further research into the history of film studies. The editors also more than adequately fulfill their goal of identifying the intellectual and institutional spaces where film studies first germinated.” — Jan-Christopher Horak, Screening the Past

“[A] lively collection. . . . Of equal interest to scholars and nonspecialists, this volume should be in all serious film collections. Highly recommended. All readers, all levels.” — G. A. Foster, Choice

“[F]or a field that doesn’t look into its own past or genealogize its own methodological assumptions with the regularity of other disciplines. . .Inventing Film Studies represents an excellent opportunity for solidifying underdocumented or underknown histories, and taking stock of where to go next.” — Michael Sicinski, Cineaste

“[T]he book is the first to seek to tell the story of this discipline from its birth in the early twentieth-century to the present. . . . Inventing Film Studies . . . will be of interest to academics working in many different areas of cinema studies.” — Matthew Campora, M/C Reviews

“The collection’s fourteen essays focus on specific episodes in the Anglo study of film; however, the cumulative effect produces a rich mosaic of film studies, a field that has always been porous, interdisciplinary, and bound to other institutions. . . . Inventing Film Studies is a tremendous contribution to the field and should be welcomed by the community of film and media scholars.” — Eric Hoyt, The Moving Image

“Inventing Film Studies goes a long way toward redressing claims by historians such as Eric Smoodin that film studies is one of the most under-historicized disciplines in the humanities. In conjunction with other recently published works, the pluralistic history of motion picture study is beginning to be mapped out by Grieveson and Wasson’s excellent anthology.” —Stephen Michael Charbonneau, International Journal of Communication

“Inventing Film Studies is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of film studies as an academic endeavor. . . . [I]t clearly sets the agenda for further research into the history of film studies. The editors also more than adequately fulfill their goal of identifying the intellectual and institutional spaces where film studies first germinated.” —Jan-Christopher Horak, Screening the Past

“[A] lively collection. . . . Of equal interest to scholars and nonspecialists, this volume should be in all serious film collections. Highly recommended. All readers, all levels.” —G. A. Foster, Choice

“[F]or a field that doesn’t look into its own past or genealogize its own methodological assumptions with the regularity of other disciplines. . .Inventing Film Studies represents an excellent opportunity for solidifying underdocumented or underknown histories, and taking stock of where to go next.” —Michael Sicinski, Cineaste

“[T]he book is the first to seek to tell the story of this discipline from its birth in the early twentieth-century to the present. . . . Inventing Film Studies . . . will be of interest to academics working in many different areas of cinema studies.” —Matthew Campora, M/C Reviews

“The collection’s fourteen essays focus on specific episodes in the Anglo study of film; however, the cumulative effect produces a rich mosaic of film studies, a field that has always been porous, interdisciplinary, and bound to other institutions. . . . Inventing Film Studies is a tremendous contribution to the field and should be welcomed by the community of film and media scholars.” —Eric Hoyt, The Moving Image

“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

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