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050 00 $aPN1995.9.D6$bU84 2011
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245 00 $aUseful cinema /$cedited by Charles R. Acland and Haidee Wasson.
260 $aDurham [NC] :$bDuke University Press,$c2011.
300 $a386 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [343]-364) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aNonfiction films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aDocumentary films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.
700 1 $aAcland, Charles R.,$d1963-
700 1 $aWasson, Haidee,$d1970-