Norden, M.F.;
(2022)
Exploring the work of Dorothy Arzner as a film-making teacher in southern California.
Film Education Journal
, 5
(2)
pp. 68-79.
10.14324/FEJ.05.2.01.
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Abstract
Dorothy Arzner is best remembered as one of the exceptionally few women to direct feature films during Hollywood’s ‘golden age’. One of the lesser known dimensions of her career is her work as a film-making teacher in southern California during a time of great change in the ways that US-based film-makers learnt their craft. During the 1950s and 1960s, students were no longer limited to on-the-job studio training, as Arzner had been in her prime; instead, they were learning how to make films via college and university coursework, and Arzner was unquestionably a key player in this educational transition. After examining her preliminary instructional work with Realart Pictures and the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, this article explores Arzner’s teaching experiences at the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts and the University of California Los Angeles. It combines her assessments of her pedagogical practices with commentary from former students and colleagues to provide a composite portrait of this pivotal film-maker turned educator.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Exploring the work of Dorothy Arzner as a film-making teacher in southern California |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/FEJ.05.2.01 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/FEJ.05.2.01 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022, Martin F. Norden. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | Dorothy Arzner, Francis Ford Coppola, film-making education, Pasadena Playhouse, student film-making, UCLA, Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10162573 |
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