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      Exploring the work of Dorothy Arzner as a film-making teacher in southern California

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          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.

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                Journal
                fej
                Film Education Journal
                UCL Press (UK )
                2515-7086
                17 November 2022
                : 5
                : 2
                : 68-79
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Professor, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
                Author notes
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                10.14324/FEJ.05.2.01
                ac90405e-125d-45cd-8ec0-07deffd59a2e
                Copyright 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.

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                : 14 February 2022
                : 09 May 2022
                Page count
                Figures: 4, References: 25, Pages: 12
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                Education,Educational research & Statistics,General education
                Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps,film-making education,Pasadena Playhouse,student film-making,UCLA,Dorothy Arzner,Francis Ford Coppola

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