Learning with the Lights Off
Educational Film in the United States
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 January 2012
- ISBN 9780195383836
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages544 pages
- Size 249x175x22 mm
- Weight 930 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 90 illustrations 0
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Short description:
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.
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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. Nontheatrical films in general and educational films in particular represent an exciting new area of inquiry in media and cultural studies. This collection illuminates a vastly influential form of filmmaking seen by millions of people around the world. The essays reveal significant insights into film's powerful role in twentieth century American culture as a medium of instruction and guidance.
The book features an ambitious introductory overview of educational film practices that provides readers with a sense of how important a role film has played in producing knowledge in America both inside the classroom and out. 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, to broader historical assessments. Offering links to many of the films under discussion at the Internet Archive, readers will be able to easily watch for themselves many of the films studied within the book's pages. Learning With the Lights Off is both reader and classroom friendly, affording new opportunities for studying these often hard-to-find films.
Learning with the Lights Off is a welcome contribution to the literature on educational filmmaking in the United States...
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
A History of Learning with the Lights Off
The Cinema of the Future: Visions of the Medium as Modern Educator, 1895-1910
Communicating Disease: Tuberculosis, Narrative, and Social Order in Thomas Edison's Red Cross Seal Films
Visualizing Industrial Citizenship
Film Education in the Natural History Museum: Cinema Lights Up the Gallery in the 1920s
Glimpses of Animal Life: Nature Films and the Emergence of Classroom Cinema
Medical Education through Film: Animating Anatomy at the American College of Surgeons and Eastman Kodak
Dr. ERPI Finds His Voice: Electrical Research Products, Inc. and the Educational Film Market, 1927-1937
Educational Film Projects of the 1930s: Secrets of Success and the Human Relations Series
Education, Broadly Interpreted": Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Development of Educational Film, 1935-1946
Cornering The Wheat Farmer (1938)
The Failure of the NYU Educational Film Institute
Spreading the Word: Race, Religion, and the Rhetoric of Contagion in Edgar G. Ulmer's TB Films
Exploitation as Education
Smoothing the Contours of Didacticism: Jam Handy and His Organization
Museum at Large: Aesthetic Education through Film
Celluloid Classrooms and Everyday Projectionsists: Post-WWII Consolidation of Community Film Activism
Screen Culture and Group Discussion in Postwar Race Relations
"A Decent and Orderly Society": Race Relations in Riot-Era Educational Films, 1966-1970
Everything Old Is New Again; or, Why I Collect Educational Films
Continuing Ed: Educational Film Collections in Libraries and Archives
A Select Guide to Educational Film Collections
