Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Prologue; 1 Cinema under Scrutiny; 2 Film Appreciation; 3 Searching for Room at the Top; 4 Discrimination and Popular Culture; 5 Film in Education -- The Back of Beyond; 6 The University in Old Compton Street; 7 The Felt Intervention of Screen; 8 Screen Saviours; 9 SEFT Limited; 10 A Moral Panic Averted; 11 Comedia delves arbitrarily; Epilogue; Screen education: a timeline 1930- 1993; Expansion of media studies -- the statistics; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
Summary
Film and media studies now attract large numbers of students in schools, colleges and universities. However the setting up of these courses came after many decades of pioneering work at the educational margins in the post-war period. Bolas account focuses particularly on the voluntary efforts of activists in the Society for Education in Film and Television and on that Societys interchanging relationship with the British Film Institutes Education Department, set up in the 1930s
