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Learning with the lights off : educational film in the United States

Title
  1. Learning with the lights off : educational film in the United States / edited by Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, and Dan Streible.
Published by
  1. New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

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Additional authors
  1. Orgeron, Devin.
  2. Gordon, Marsha, 1971-
  3. Streible, Dan.
Description
  1. xiii, 525 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Subject
  1. Educational films > United States > History and criticism
  2. Motion pictures in education > United States
Contents
  1. Introduction: a History of Learning with the Lights Off / Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, and Dan Streible -- The Cinema of the Future: Visions of the Medium as Modern Educator, 1895-1910 / Oliver Gaycken -- Communicating Disease: Tuberculosis, Narrative, and Social Order in Thomas Edison's Red Cross Seal Films / Miriam Posner -- Visualizing Industrial Citizenship / Lee Grieveson -- Film Education in the Natural History Museum: Cinema Lights Up the Gallery in the 1920s / Alison Griffiths -- Glimpses of Animal Life: Nature Films and the Emergence of Classroom Cinema / Jennifer Peterson -- Medical Education through Film: Animating Anatomy at the American College of Surgeons and Eastman Kodak / Kirsten Ostherr -- Dr. ERPI Finds His Voice: Electrical Research Products, Inc. and the Educational Film Market, 1927-1937 / Heide Solbrig -- Educational Film Projects of the 1930s: Secrets of Success and the Human Relations Series / Craig Kridel -- Education, Broadly Interpreted: Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Development of Educational Film, 1935-1946 / Victoria Cain -- Cornering The Wheat Farmer (1938) / Gregory A. Waller -- The Failure of the NYU Educational Film Institute / Dan Streible -- Spreading the Word: Race, Religion, and the Rhetoric of Contagion in Edgar G. Ulmer's TB Films / Devin Orgeron -- Exploitation as Education / Eric Schaefer -- Smoothing the Contours of Didacticism: Jam Handy and His Organization / Rick Prelinger -- Museum at Large: Aesthetic Education through Film / Katerina Loukopoulou -- Celluloid Classrooms and Everyday Projectionsists: Post-WWII Consolidation of Community Film Activism / Charles R. Acland -- Screen Culture and Group Discussion in Postwar Race Relations / Anna McCarthy -- "A Decent and Orderly Society": Race Relations in Riot-Era Educational Films, 1966-1970 / Marsha Orgeron -- Everything Old Is New Again; or, Why I Collect Educational Films / Skip Elsheimer with Kimberly Pifer -- Continuing Ed: Educational Film Collections in Libraries and Archives / Elena Rossi-Snook -- A select guide to educational film collections / Elena Rossi-Snook.
Call number
  1. MFL 12-3413
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.
Title
  1. Learning with the lights off : educational film in the United States / edited by Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, and Dan Streible.
Imprint
  1. New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.
Added author
  1. Orgeron, Devin.
  2. Gordon, Marsha, 1971-
  3. Streible, Dan.
LCCN
  1. 2011005141
ISBN
  1. 9780195383843 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  2. 0195383842 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  3. 9780195383836 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  4. 0195383834 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. MFL 12-3413
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