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Learning with the Lights Off Educational Film in the United States

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ISBN-10: 0195383834

ISBN-13: 9780195383836

Edition: 2011

Authors: Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, Dan Streible

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Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

MARSHA ORGERON is an assistant professor and director of film studies at North Carolina State University, where she teaches a range of courses focused on Hollywood history.

Dan Streible is Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University and Associate Director of its Moving Image Archiving and Preservation master's program. He is also director of the Orphan Film Symposium.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Companion Website
Introduction
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 Lee Grieveson
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, 1917-1937
Educational Film Projects of the 1930s: Secrets of Success and the Human Relations Film Series
"An Indirect Influence upon Industry": Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Development of Educational Film in the United States, 1935-1953
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. Ulmers 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 Projectionists: Post-World War II 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
Contributors
Index