Useful cinema

by Acland, Charles R. Wasson, Haidee

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Full title :Useful cinema / edited by Charles R. Acland and Haidee Wasson.

Summary

By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions, including libraries, museums, classrooms, and professional organizations, the essays in Useful Cinema show how moving images became an ordinary feature of American life. In venues such as factories and community halls, people encountered industrial, educational, training, advertising, and other types of "useful cinema." Screening these films transformed unlikely spaces, conveyed ideas, and produced subjects in the service of public and private aims. Such functional motion pictures helped to shape common sense about cinema's place in contemporary life. Whether measured in terms of the number of films shown, the size of audiences, or the economic activity generated, the "non-theatrical sector" was a substantial and enduring parallel to the more spectacular realm of commercial film. In Useful Cinema, scholars examine organizations such as UNESCO, the YMCA, the Amateur Cinema League, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They also consider film exhibition sites in schools, businesses, and industries. As they expand understanding of this other American cinema, the contributors challenge preconceived notions about what cinema is. Contributors: Charles R. Acland, Joseph Clark, Zoe Druick, Ronald Walter Greene, Alison Griffiths, Stephen Groening, Jennifer Horne, Kirsten Ostherr, Eric Smoodin, Charles Tepperman, Gregory A. Waller, Haidee Wasson, Michael Zryd.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham [NC]
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (386 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

oclc:on1309946844
LC Classification:PN1995.9.D6
Dewey Decimal:070.1/8

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