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Iam not an expert on film schools, though I used to work in one. Nor have I undertaken an exhaustive analysis of the six hundred such entities that supposedly exist across the United States.1 But here I am, writing about that symbolic behemoth of the film school, the United States.

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Miller, T. (2013). Goodbye to Film School: Please Close the Door on Your Way Out. In: Hjort, M. (eds) The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. Global Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137032690_8

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