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Useful cinema /

By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions including libraries, classrooms, and professional organizations, film scholars show how moving images became an ordinary feature of American life.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Acland, Charles R., 1963-, Wasson, Haidee, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: utility and cinema / Haidee Wasson and Charles R. Acland
  • "What a power for education!" : the cinema and sites of learning in the 1930s / Eric Smoodin
  • "We can see ourselves as others see us" : women workers and western union's training films in the 1920s / Stephen Groening
  • Hollywood's educators : Mark May and teaching film custodians / Charles R. Acland
  • Unesco, film, and education : mediating postwar paradigms of communication / Zoë Druick
  • Health films, cold war, and the production of patriotic audiences : the body fights bacteria (1948) / Kirsten Ostherr
  • Projecting the promise of 16mm, 1935-45 / Gregory A. Waller
  • A history long overdue : the public library and motion pictures / Jennifer Horne
  • Big, fast museums/small, slow movies : film, scale, and the art museum / Haidee Wasson
  • Pastoral exhibition : the YMCA motion picture bureau and the transition to 16mm, 1928-39 / Ronald Walter Greene
  • "A moving picture of the heavens" : the planetarium space show as useful cinema / Alison Griffiths
  • Double vision : World War II, racial uplift, and the all-American newsreel's pedagogical address / Joseph Clark
  • Mechanical craftsmanship : amateurs making practical films / Charles Tepperman
  • Experimental film as useless cinema / Michael Zryd.