Learning with the Lights Off : Educational Film in the United States
ISBN: 9780195383836 | 0195383834
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/6/2012
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Learning With the Lights Off is the first collection of essays to address the phenomenon of film's educational uses in twentieth century America. Each essay analyzes in close detail some crucial aspect of educational film history, ranging from case studies of films and filmmakers to analyses of genres and broader historical assessments.
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| About the Companion Website | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| A History of Learning with the Lights Off | p. 15 |
| The Cinema of the Future: Visions of the Medium as Modern Educator, 1895-1910 | p. 67 |
| Communicating Disease: Tuberculosis, Narrative, and Social Order in Thomas Edison's Red Cross Seal Films | p. 90 |
| Visualizing Industrial Citi... MORE | p. 107 |
| Film Education in the Natural History Museum: Cinema Lights Up the Gallery in the 1920s | p. 114 |
| Glimpses of Animal Life: Nature Films and the Emergence of Classroom Cinema | p. 145 |
| Medical Education through Film: Animating Anatomy at the American College of Surgeons and Eastman Kodak | p. 168 |
| Dr. Erpi Finds His Voice: Electrical Research Products, Inc. and the Educational Film Market, 1917-1937 | p. 193 |
| Educational Film Projects of the 1930s: Secrets of Success and the Human Relations Film Series | p. 215 |
| "An Indirect Influence upon Industry": Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Development of Educational Film in the United States, 1935-1953 | p. 230 |
| Cornering The Wheat Farmer (1938) | p. 249 |
| The Failure of the NYU Educational Film Institute | p. 271 |
| Spreading the Word: Race, Religion, and the Rhetoric of Contagion in Edgar G. Ulmers TB Films | p. 295 |
| Exploitation as Education | p. 316 |
| Smoothing the Contours of Didacticism: Jam Handy and His Organization | p. 338 |
| Museum at Large: Aesthetic Education through Film | p. 356 |
| Celluloid Classrooms and Everyday Projectionists: Post-World War II Consolidation of Community Film Activism | p. 377 |
| Screen Culture and Group Discussion in Postwar Race Relations | p. 397 |
| "A Decent and Orderly Society": Race Relations in Riot-Era Educational Films, 1966-1970 | p. 424 |
| Everything Old is New Again; or, Why I Collect Educational Films | p. 442 |
| Continuing Ed: Educational Film Collections in Libraries and Archives | p. 457 |
| A Select Guide to Educational Film Collections | p. 478 |
| Contributors | p. 495 |
| Index | p. 499 |
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Devin Orgeron is Associate Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University and co-editor of The Moving Image, the journal of the Association for Moving Image Archivists. He is the author of Road Movies. Marsha Orgeron is Associate Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University. She is the co-editor of The Moving Image and the author of Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age. Dan Streible teaches cinema studies at New York University, where he is also Associate Director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. He directs the Orphan Film Project and its biennial symposium. He is the author of Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema.
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