Useful cinema / Charles R. Acland & Haidee Wasson, eds.

Contributor(s):

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: Durham, N.C. [u.a.] : Duke University Press, 2011Description: X, 386 S. : IllISBN:

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

RVK: RVK: AP 49100 | AP 49800LOC classification:

Contents:

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 / Zoe͏̈ 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.

Call number: Grundsignatur: 2015 A 5434PPN: PPN: 654629811

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Freihandbestand ausleihbar	Bibliothek Campus Süd	lit 4.25	Lesesaal Geisteswissenschaften (LSG)	2015 A 5434	Available		52990809090

Total holds: 0