Screen Education: From Film Appreciation To Media Studies

Description:
Film and media studies attract large numbers of students in schools, colleges and universities. However the setting up of these courses came after many decades of pioneering work in the post-war period. Bolas' account focuses on the voluntary efforts of activists in the Society for Education in Film and Television and on that Society's interchanging relationship with the British Film Institute's Education Department, set up in the 1930s. 'Screen Education: From Film Appreciation to Media Studies' draws on recent interviews with individuals who contributed to the raising of the status of film, TV and media study. Through detailed examination of the scattered but surviving documentary record, the author seeks to challenge versions of the received history.

Table of Contents:
1. 'Cinema under Scrutiny' - Page 11 - Terry Bolas 2. 'Film Appreciation' - Page 37 - Terry Bolas 3. 'Searching for Room at the Top' - Page 69 - Terry Bolas 4. 'Discrimination and Popular Culture' - Page 99 - Terry Bolas 5. 'Film in Education - The Back of Beyond' - Page 131 - Terry Bolas 6. 'The University in Old Compton Street' - Page 163 - Terry Bolas 7. 'The Felt Intervention of Screen' - Page 197 - Terry Bolas 8. 'Screen Saviours' - Page 227 - Terry Bolas 9. 'Seft Limited' - Page 259 - Terry Bolas 10. 'A Moral Panic Averted' - Page 293 - Terry Bolas 11. 'Comedia delves arbitrarily' - Page 319 - Terry Bolas 'Screen education: a timeline 1930-1993' - Page 357 - Terry Bolas 'Expansion of media studies - the statistics' - Page 371 - Terry Bolas

Author Biography:
Terry Bolas has been involved with film and media education since the 1960s, when he was Honorary Secretary for the Society for Education in Film and Television (SEFT) and Editor of Screen journal. He was then a Teacher Advisor at the BFI.