"Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of movie-watching did not happen in the glow of the large screen. Rather, it unreeled alongside the glitches, distortions, and clickety-c…
Introduction : portability and projectability -- Engineering portability -- Spectacular portability : cinema's exhibitionary complex, American industry, and the 1939 world's fair -- Mobilizing portability : the American military and film projectors -- Portable projectors and the…
Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of movie-watching did not happen in the glow of the large screen but rather took place alongside the glitches, distortions, and clickety-c…
"Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of movie-watching did not happen in the glow of the large screen. Rather, it unreeled alongside the glitches, distortions, and clickety-c…
Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of movie-watching did not happen in the glow of the large screen but rather took place alongside the glitches, distortions, and clickety-c…
"Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of movie-watching did not happen in the glow of the large screen. Rather, it unreeled alongside the glitches, distortions, and clickety-c…
"Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of movie-watching did not happen in the glow of the large screen. Rather, it unreeled alongside the glitches, distortions, and clickety-c…
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…
Useful Cinema
by Wasson, Haidee, Acland, Charles R., Acland, Charles R.; Wasson, Haidee
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…
Useful Cinema
by Project Muse, Wasson, Haidee, Acland, Charles R.
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
Useful cinema
by Wasson, Haidee, Acland, Charles R.
fromE-Duke books scholarly collection
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.
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…
The Academy and Motion Pictures / Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson -- Cinema Studies and the Conduct of Conduct / Lee Grieveson -- Taking Liberties: The Payne Fund Studies and the Creation of the Media Expert / Mark Lynn Anderson -- "Reaching the Multimillions": Liberal Internati…