Useful Cinema

by Acland, Charles R. Wasson, Haidee

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Title Statements

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

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 p. :) : ill.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780822394167, 0822394162
oclc:on1140782045
LC Classification:PN1995.9.D6
Dewey Decimal:070.1/8

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 m…

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Criticism, interpretation, etc Documentary films Documentary films -- History and critic… Electronic books Films autres que de fiction -- Histoire… Nonfiction films Nonfiction films -- History and critici… United States