This collection contributes new understandings to the history of film studiesparticularly regarding the disciplines development in the humanities and itsgradual... » 

This collection contributes new understandings to the history of film studiesparticularly regarding the disciplines development in the humanities and itsgradual abandonment of the methodological practices of the social sciences inwhich it had its origins. Inventing Film Studies will be welcomed byacademics working in cinema studies and it will provide new entrants to thefield with an important introduction to the history of their study.RichardMaltby author of Hollywood Cinema «