Acland / Wasson Useful Cinema

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9416-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 398 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Acland, Charles R.

Wasson, Haidee

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Utility and Cinema / Haidee Wasson and Charles R. Acland 1

1. Celluloid Classrooms

"What a Power for Education!": The Cinema and Sites of Learning in the 1930s / Eric Smoodin 17

"We Can See Ourselves as Others See Us": Women Workers and Western Union's Training Films in the 1920s / Stephen Groening 34

Hollywood's Educators: Mark May and Teaching Film Custodians / Charles R. Acland 59

UNESCO, Film, and Education: Mediating Postwar Paradigms of Communications / Zoë Druick 81

Health Films, Cold War, and the Production of Patriotic Audiences: The Body Fights Bacteria (1948) / Kirsten Ostherr 103

2. Civic Circuits

Projecting the Promise of 16mm, 1935–45 / Gregory A. Waller 125

A History Long Overdue: The Public Library and Motion Pictures / Jennifer Horne 149

Big, Fast Museums / Small, Slow Movies: Film, Scale, and the Art Musuem / Haidee Wasson 178

Pastoral Exhibition: The YMCA Motion Picture Bureau and the Transition to 16mm, 1928–39 / Ronald Walter Greene 205

"A Moving Picture of the Heavens": The Planetarium Space Show as Useful Cinema / Alison Griffiths 230

3. Making Useful Films

Double Vision: World War II, Racial Uplift, and the All-American Newsreel's Pedagogical Address / Joseph Clark 263

Mechanical Craftsmanship: Amateurs Making Practical Films / Charles Tepperman 289

Experimental Film as Useless Cinema / Michael Zyrd 315

Filmography 337

Bibliography 343

About the Contributors 365

Index 369

Über Autor(innen)

Charles R. Acland is Professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture, also published by Duke University Press, and the editor of Residual Media.Haidee Wasson is Associate Professor in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University. She is the author of Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema and a co-editor of Inventing Film Studies, also published by Duke University Press.