Useful cinema [electronic resource] / edited by Charles R. Acland and Haidee Wasson.
By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions including libraries, classrooms, and professional organizations, film scholars show how moving images became an ordinary feature of American life.
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2011.
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Table of 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.