Contents Buster Keaton and Professor Karl Waugh frontispiece Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Disciplinary History of Film Studies 1. First Forays in Film Education: The Pedagogy of Photoplay Composition at Columbia University 2. A Brief Interlude as the Movies March On: Terry Ramsaye and the New School for Social Research 3. "Younger Art, Old College, Happy Union": Harvard Goes into the Business and Art of the Movies 4. Between Academia and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: The University of Southern California Ventures into the Cinema 5. Politics as Pedagogy, Pedagogy as Politics: The Rather Brief Moment in Time of Harry Alan Potamkin 6. Appreciations of Cinema: Syracuse Discovers Film Art 7. Cinematic Diversions in Sociology: Frederic Thrasher in the World of Film Appreciation 8.

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