Learning with the lights off
Subtitle: educational film in the United States
By: edited by Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, and Dan Streible
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 525
ISBN-13: 9780195383843; 9780195383836
Subjects: Motion pictures in education; History and criticism; Educational films
Notes: Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a History of Learning with the Lights Off / Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, and Dan Streible; title: The Cinema of the Future: Visions of the Medium as Modern Educator, 1895-1910 / Oliver Gaycken; title: Communicating Disease: Tuberculosis, Narrative, and Social Order in Thomas Edison's Red Cross Seal Films / Miriam Posner; title: Visualizing Industrial Citizenship / Lee Grieveson; title: Film Education in the Natural History Museum: Cinema Lights Up the Gallery in the 1920s / Alison Griffiths; title: Glimpses of Animal Life: Nature Films and the Emergence of Classroom Cinema / Jennifer Peterson; title: Medical Education through Film: Animating Anatomy at the American College of Surgeons and Eastman Kodak / Kirsten Ostherr; title: Dr. ERPI Finds His Voice: Electrical Research Products, Inc. and the Educational Film Market, 1927-1937 / Heide Solbrig; title: Educational Film Projects of the 1930s: Secrets of Success and the Human Relations Series / Craig Kridel; title: Education, Broadly Interpreted: Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Development of Educational Film, 1935-1946 / Victoria Cain; title: Cornering The Wheat Farmer (1938) / Gregory A. Waller; title: The Failure of the NYU Educational Film Institute / Dan Streible; title: Spreading the Word: Race, Religion, and the Rhetoric of Contagion in Edgar G. Ulmer's TB Films / Devin Orgeron; title: Exploitation as Education / Eric Schaefer; title: Smoothing the Contours of Didacticism: Jam Handy and His Organization / Rick Prelinger; title: Museum at Large: Aesthetic Education through Film / Katerina Loukopoulou; title: Celluloid Classrooms and Everyday Projectionsists: Post-WWII Consolidation of Community Film Activism / Charles R. Acland; title: Screen Culture and Group Discussion in Postwar Race Relations / Anna McCarthy; title: "A Decent and Orderly Society": Race Relations in Riot-Era Educational Films, 1966-1970 / Marsha Orgeron; title: Everything Old Is New Again; or, Why I Collect Educational Films / Skip Elsheimer with Kimberly Pifer; title: Continuing Ed: Educational Film Collections in Libraries and Archives / Elena Rossi-Snook; title: A select guide to educational film collections / Elena Rossi-Snook.