Learning with the lights off [[electronic resource] ] : educational film in the United States / / edited by Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, and Dan Streible

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (544 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.33/523; 371.33523
• Soggetto topico: Educational films - United States - History and criticism; Motion pictures in education - United States
• Altri autori: OrgeronDevin OrgeronMarsha StreibleDan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Cinema ; 7. 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 Institute ; 13. 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 Again ; or, 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 assessment
• Titolo autorizzato: Learning with the lights off
• ISBN: 1-283-42767-2; 9786613427670; 0-19-987466-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778810203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II