Jack C Ellis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1710331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack C Ellis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellis |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIS J C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Society for Cinema Studies
My first involvement with what would become the Society for Cinema Studies (now the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, or SCMS) began in the spring of 1957 with an invitation from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Film Library (now Department). About fifteen to twenty cinema teachers attended. (Since anyone teaching only film production was excluded, there were not many to invite.) Richard Griffith, curator of the film library, and Margareta Ake…
Ruminations of an Ex-Cinematologist
What first occurred to me as I began thinking about the origins and development of cinema studies in this country was that I was on some sort of an archeological dig. When I realized that rather than the digger I am one of the ancient objects being unearthed, I abandoned that conceit. Then it occurred to me that perhaps I could see myself as a sailor on the stern of a ship, looking back at its wake. But, as ships move, wakes disappear, from sight…
A History of Film
Grierson at University
In 1915 a 17-year old John Grierson made what has been described by one of his professors as a brilliant entry into Glasgow University.1 In the Bursary Competition-a nationwide test-he became the first entrant who was not a classical scholar and who didn't know Greek to take a major (second) prize.2 The result was that he received a scholarship to the University as a Clark Scholar. By then, however, the country was a year into World War I. Griers…
John Grierson's First Years at the National Film Board
At the outbreak of World War II Canada was something of a sleeping giant. In certain ways it was also a geographical and cultural anomaly which no orderly-minded nation planner would have perpetrated. Larger in area than the United States, its sparse population stretched across a 200mile-wide strip along its southern border; physically it really represented an extension of the United States up into the uninhabitable arctic. Its prodigious breadth…
The Young Grierson in America, 1924-1927
In 1923 Grierson had received an M.A. from Glasgow University with distinctions in English and in moral philosophy. After a short period lecturing at University of Durham, he was awarded a Rockefeller research fellowship in social science for study in America. Although it is not clear that Grierson's research goals were precise at time he left for States, they may already have centered around role of mass communication in shaping public opinion. …
The Young Grierson in America, 1924-1927
In 1923 Grierson had received an M.A. from Glasgow University with distinctions in English and in moral philosophy. After a short period lecturing at University of Durham, he was awarded a Rockefeller research fellowship in social science for study in America. Although it is not clear that Grierson's research goals were precise at time he left for States, they may already have centered around role of mass communication in shaping public opinion. …
The Young Grierson in America, 1924-1927
In 1923 Grierson had received an M.A. from Glasgow University with distinctions in English and in moral philosophy. After a short period lecturing at University of Durham, he was awarded a Rockefeller research fellowship in social science for study in America. Although it is not clear that Grierson's research goals were precise at time he left for States, they may already have centered around role of mass communication in shaping public opinion. …
John Grierson's First Years at the National Film Board
At the outbreak of World War II Canada was something of a sleeping giant. In certain ways it was also a geographical and cultural anomaly which no orderly-minded nation planner would have perpetrated. Larger in area than the United States, its sparse population stretched across a 200mile-wide strip along its southern border; physically it really represented an extension of the United States up into the uninhabitable arctic. Its prodigious breadth…
Grierson at University
In 1915 a 17-year old John Grierson made what has been described by one of his professors as a brilliant entry into Glasgow University.1 In the Bursary Competition-a nationwide test-he became the first entrant who was not a classical scholar and who didn't know Greek to take a major (second) prize.2 The result was that he received a scholarship to the University as a Clark Scholar. By then, however, the country was a year into World War I. Griers…
A History of Film
Ruminations of an Ex-Cinematologist
What first occurred to me as I began thinking about the origins and development of cinema studies in this country was that I was on some sort of an archeological dig. When I realized that rather than the digger I am one of the ancient objects being unearthed, I abandoned that conceit. Then it occurred to me that perhaps I could see myself as a sailor on the stern of a ship, looking back at its wake. But, as ships move, wakes disappear, from sight…
The Society for Cinema Studies
My first involvement with what would become the Society for Cinema Studies (now the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, or SCMS) began in the spring of 1957 with an invitation from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Film Library (now Department). About fifteen to twenty cinema teachers attended. (Since anyone teaching only film production was excluded, there were not many to invite.) Richard Griffith, curator of the film library, and Margareta Ake…
Art (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Australian History and Society (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · American History and Culture (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Canadian Identity and History (1 works) · Demography (1 works)