Useful cinema
By: edited by Charles R. Acland and Haidee Wasson
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780822349976; 9780822350095
Subjects: Nonfiction films; Documentary films; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-364) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: utility and cinema / Haidee Wasson and Charles R. Acland; title: "What a power for education!" : the cinema and sites of learning in the 1930s / Eric Smoodin; title: "We can see ourselves as others see us" : women workers and western union's training films in the 1920s / Stephen Groening; title: Hollywood's educators : Mark May and teaching film custodians / Charles R. Acland; title: Unesco, film, and education : mediating postwar paradigms of communication / Zoë Druick; title: Health films, cold war, and the production of patriotic audiences : the body fights bacteria (1948) / Kirsten Ostherr; title: Projecting the promise of 16mm, 1935-45 / Gregory A. Waller; title: A history long overdue : the public library and motion pictures / Jennifer Horne; title: Big, fast museums/small, slow movies : film, scale, and the art museum / Haidee Wasson; title: Pastoral exhibition : the YMCA motion picture bureau and the transition to 16mm, 1928-39 / Ronald Walter Greene; title: "A moving picture of the heavens" : the planetarium space show as useful cinema / Alison Griffiths; title: Double vision : World War II, racial uplift, and the all-American newsreel's pedagogical address / Joseph Clark; title: Mechanical craftsmanship : amateurs making practical films / Charles Tepperman; title: Experimental film as useless cinema / Michael Zryd.