by Acland, Charles R; Wasson, Haidee
Book / 2011

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TitleUseful cinema
Item typeBook
Author(s)
  • Acland, Charles R
  • Wasson, Haidee
ImprintDurham [NC] Duke University Press, 2011
ISBN
  • 9780822349976
  • 0822349973
  • 9780822350095
  • 0822350092
LanguageEnglish
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Notes
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-364) and index.
  • 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.
  • Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.
Physical description386 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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Date text: 
2011
Author: 
Acland, Charles RWasson, Haidee
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Duke University Press
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