Title: Useful cinema /
Authors: Acland, Charles R., 1963-; Wasson, Haidee, 1970-
Publisher: Duke University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Nonfiction films United States History and criticism.; Documentary films United States History and criticism
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 / Zoë 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.