USC School of Cinematic Arts

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The USC School of Cinematic Arts ( until 2006 School of Cinema-Television, CTV) is a film school within the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California.

It is the largest and oldest of these schools in the United States, founded in 1929 as a joint venture of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The school offers several courses and master courses. 2010-2011, the school had 848 ungraduierte and 707 graduate students.

The founding faculty of the School includes Douglas Fairbanks Sr., DW Griffith, William C. DeMille, Ernst Lubitsch, Irving Thalberg, and Darryl F. Zanuck with a. Together with notable experts such as Jonathan Andrew Casper, the Alma and Alfred Hitchcock Professor of American cinema; Tomlinson Holman, founder of THX; David Bondelevitch, President of Motio Pictures Sound Editor; and Mark Jonathan Harris, documentary filmmaker.

In April 2006, the USC Board of Trustees voted to change the school name in the USC School of Cinematic Arts. On 19 September 2006 George Lucas donated $ 175 million for the expansion of the school to 12,700 m². This is the largest donation from a private investor for the USC and also for all film schools around the world.