자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0016931593

International Standard Book Number  

9798379773908

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

791

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Brennan, Nathaniel.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : New York University., 2023

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Physical Description  

1 online resource(385 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Polan, Dana.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2023.

Restrictions on Access Note  

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Summary, Etc.  

요약This dissertation investigates American cultural anthropology's contributions to the development of early film studies before and during World War II. Through detailed historical reconstruction, it demonstrates how fields of knowledge are formed in part through negotiations between and exchanges across existent disciplines. During the interwar period, anthropology's disciplinary cache increased dramatically. At that time, the culture concept introduced and promulgated by American anthropologists was widely adopted by social scientists in adjacent fields. Elsewhere, efforts to use the insights of the social sciences proactively to address the social unrest of the Depression years, led to greater collaboration between the social and human sciences which sought to understand the dialectical relationship between individual and society. Social scientific film studies emerged in this juncture. When the national emergency shifted from the Depression to the growing threat of fascism and global war at the end of the decade, several key cultural anthropologists began to consider how their professional training and insight could be used to preserve American democracy, boost national morale, and, ultimately, help Americans understand how cultural particularities shaped the worldview, philosophy, and expectations of all peoples ranged into groups, from small isolated communities to industrialized nations. As a form of global cultural currency, cinema was an obvious tool through which to explore these ideas.This is also a story about the development and transmission of ideas as a material process dependent on access to money and resources. As such, it emphasizes how institutions like philanthropic organizations, government agencies, colleges, and universities cultivate and delimit lines of intellectual inquiry. On the other side of the equation are the scholars, artists, and administrators who worked within, outside, and occasionally against these interests. and how new ideas are developed and put into use. Taking these two extremes into account helps to contextualize the situation in which ideas and theories come to fruition - this relationship also helps us understand what happens when new ideas have run their course. Several issues deriving from this materialist view of intellectual history recur throughout the dissertation. The first issue is the development of ideas about cinema's usefulness. Thanks largely to capital investments from the Rockefeller Foundation, the ways that scholars thought about cinema changed dramatically in the latter half of the 1930s. Cinema, in addition to being a form of popular entertainment, could be used as a tool of social scientific instrumentation. It could be developed into as an educational or documentary tool. Alternately, popular films could be taken apart and analyzed as sources of cultural intelligence about how people think and perceive the world. The second concept begins as a core tenet of cultural anthropology: culture is relative and malleable, but to the individual enmeshed within a culture it appears to be universal. Abstracting from that idea, anthropologists argued that these cultural regularities, when applied to complex modern cultures - i.e., the nation - constituted a definable national character. Combining these two concepts - useful cinema and national character - during World War II laid the foundation for a quasi-scientific (and therefore legitimate) understanding of cultural character.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Film studies.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Cultural anthropology.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Cinematography.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Anthropology

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Bateson, Gregory

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Disciplinary history

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Modern Art Film Library

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Rockefeller foundation

Added Entry-Corporate Name  

New York University Cinema Studies

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-01A.

Host Item Entry  

Dissertation Abstract International

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