04186nam 2200565Ia 450 991045780620332120200520144314.01-283-42767-297866134276700-19-987466-2(CKB)2550000000079331(EBL)845952(OCoLC)773827825(MiAaPQ)EBC845952(Au-PeEL)EBL845952(CaPaEBR)ebr10524898(CaONFJC)MIL342767(EXLCZ)99255000000007933120110217d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||Learning with the lights off[electronic resource] educational film in the United States /edited by Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, and Dan StreibleNew York Oxford University Pressc20121 online resource (544 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-538384-2 0-19-538383-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Companion Website; Introduction; 1. A History of Learning with the Lights Off; 2. The Cinema of the Future: Visions of the Medium as Modern Educator, 1895-1910; 3. Communicating Disease: Tuberculosis, Narrative, and Social Order in Thomas Edison's Red Cross Seal Films; 4. Visualizing Industrial Citizenship; 5. Film Education in the Natural History Museum: Cinema Lights Up the Gallery in the 1920's; 6. Glimpses of Animal Life: Nature Films and the Emergence of Classroom Cinema7. Medical Education through Film: Animating Anatomy at the American College of Surgeons and Eastman Kodak 8. Dr. ERPI Finds His Voice: Electrical Research Products, Inc. and the Educational Film Market, 1927-1937; 9. Educational Film Projects of the 1930's: Secrets of Success and the Human Relations Film Series; 10. "An Indirect Influence upon Industry": Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Development of Educational Film in the United States, 1935-1953; 11. Cornering The Wheat Farmer (1938); 12. The Failure of the NYU Educational Film Institute13. Spreading the Word: Race, Religion, and the Rhetoric of Contagion in Edgar G. Ulmer's TB Films 14. Exploitation as Education; 15. Smoothing the Contours of Didacticism: Jam Handy and His Organization; 16. Museum at Large: Aesthetic Education through Film; 17. Celluloid Classrooms and Everyday Projectionists: Post-World War II Consolidation of Community Film Activism; 18. Screen Culture and Group Discussion in Postwar Race Relations; 19. "A Decent and Orderly Society": Race Relations in Riot-Era Educational Films, 1966-1970; 20. Everything Old is New Againor, Why I Collect Educational Films 21. Continuing Ed: Educational Film Collections in Libraries and Archives; 22. A Select Guide to Educational Film Collections; Contributors; Index;A vastly influential form of filmmaking seen by millions of people, educational films provide a catalog of twentieth century preoccupations and values. As a medium of instruction and guidance, they held a powerful cultural position, producing knowledge both inside and outside the classroom. This is the first collection of essays to address this vital phenomenon. The book provides an ambitious overview of educational film practices, while each essay analyzes a crucial aspect of educational film history, ranging from case studies of films and filmmakers to broader generic and historical assessmentEducational filmsUnited StatesHistory and criticismMotion pictures in educationUnited StatesElectronic books.Educational filmsHistory and criticism.Motion pictures in education371.33/523371.33523Orgeron Devin973316Orgeron Marsha973317Streible Dan973318MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457806203321Learning with the lights off2214367UNINA