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Films that work : industrial film and the productivity of media /

The history of industrial films - an orphan genre of twentieth-century cinema composed of government-produced and industrially sponsored movies that sought to achieve the goals of their sponsors, rather than the creative artists involved - seems to have left no trace in filmic cultural discourse. At...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hediger, Vinzenz, 1969-, Vonderau, Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Film culture in transition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: I. Navigating the Archive
  • Archives and Archaeologies: The Place of Non-Fiction Film in Contemporary Media / Thomas Elsaesser
  • Record, Rhetoric, Rationalization: Industrial Organization and Film / Patrick Vonderau / Vinzenz Hediger
  • Vernacular Archiving: An Interview with Rick Prelinger / Patrick Vonderau
  • II. Visuality and Efficiency
  • Early Industrial Moving Pictures in Germany / Martin Loiperdinger
  • Layers of Cheese: Generic Overlap in Early Non-Fiction Films on Production Processes / Eef Masson / Frank Kessler
  • Images of Efficiency: The Films of Frank B. Gilbreth / Scott Curtis
  • "What Hollywood Is to America, the Corporate Film Is to Switzerland": Remarks on Industrial Film as Utility Film / Yvonne Zimmermann
  • Poussieres: Writing the Real vs. the Documentary Real / Gerard Leblanc
  • Thermodynamic Kitsch: Computing in German Industrial Films, 1928/1963 / Vinzenz Hediger
  • III. Films and Factories
  • Touring as a Cultural Technique: Visitor Films and Autostadt Wolfsburg / Patrick Vonderau
  • Corporate Films of Industrial Work: Renault (1916-1939) / Alain P. Michel
  • Filming Work on Behalf of the Automobile Firm: The Case of Renault (1950-2002) / Gwenaele Rot / Nicolas Hatzfeld / Alain P. Michel
  • Eccentricity, Education and the Evolution of Corporate Speech: Jam Handy and His Organization / Rick Prelinger
  • Centron, an Industrial/Educational Film Studio, 1947-1981: A Microhistory / Faye E. Riley
  • Films from Beyond the Well: A Historical Overview of Shell Films 243 / Rudmer Canjels
  • IV. See, Learn, Control
  • Personnel Is Political: Voice and Citizenship in Affirmative-Action Videos in the Bell System, 1970-1984 / Heide Solbrig
  • Behaviorism, Animation, and Effective Cinema: The McGraw-Hill INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT Film Series and the Visual Culture of Management / Ramon Reichert.