title: Academic Films for the Classroom: A History
author:  Geoff Alexander 
description: "Alexander's book is a highly readable paean to the men and women behind these academic films...Alexander's compelling narrative and anecdotal style make it hard to put the book down"--<i>The Moving Image</i>.
zlib_text: THE DEDUCTIVE METHOD
  A Miskatonic University: The Restricted Collection Kickstarter Exclusive
  BY Molly TANZER
  
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  nhappy is the graduate student who has to actually do things 
  other than homework while on the work-study clock. I was 
  lucky, as far as those gigs went. Spending twenty hours a week 
  checking DVDs in and out of the film library for the Humanities 
  Department of Miskatonic University wasn’t bad. Only a few TAs 
  ever came in; with YouTube for clips and most of our DVDs available 
  in digital format from the Orne Library or on pirate sites, we didn’t 
  see a lot of action. 
  Well, the film library didn’t. I was obsolete—mostly I existed 
  to service the handful of older professors who couldn’t understand 
  streaming sites. But, given the library’s positioning just off the 
  student computer lab, in a disused office, I had a front row seat 
  for the scandalous and torrid affair Dr. Hernandez was currently 
  conducting with one of her graduate students. 
  Last year, it had been me snea