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Duke University Press, Duke University Press Books
Language
English
Pages
386

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Subjects
Nonfiction films, Documentary films, History and criticism, Film criticism
Places
United States
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-364) and index.

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Durham [NC]

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070.1/8
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PN1995.9.D6 U84 2011, PN1995.9.D6U84 2011

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386 p. :
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OL25202309M
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9780822349976, 9780822350095
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2011010726
OCLC/WorldCat
700145922

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