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Useful Cinema

Autor Charles R. Acland, Haidee Wasson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 oct 2011
By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions, including libraries, museums, classrooms, and professional organizations, the essays in Useful Cinema show how moving images became an ordinary feature of American life. In venues such as factories and community halls, people encountered industrial, educational, training, advertising, and other types of “useful cinema.” Screening these films transformed unlikely spaces, conveyed ideas, and produced subjects in the service of public and private aims. Such functional motion pictures helped to shape common sense about cinema’s place in contemporary life. Whether measured in terms of the number of films shown, the size of audiences, or the economic activity generated, the “non-theatrical sector” was a substantial and enduring parallel to the more spectacular realm of commercial film. In Useful Cinema, scholars examine organizations such as UNESCO, the YMCA, the Amateur Cinema League, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They also consider film exhibition sites in schools, businesses, and industries. As they expand understanding of this other American cinema, the contributors challenge preconceived notions about what cinema is. Contributors: Charles R. Acland, Joseph Clark, Zoë Druick, Ronald Walter Greene, Alison Griffiths, Stephen Groening, Jennifer Horne, Kirsten Ostherr, Eric Smoodin, Charles Tepperman, Gregory A. Waller, Haidee Wasson, Michael Zryd
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822350095
ISBN-10: 0822350092
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 56 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 158 x 236 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Utility and Cinema / Haidee Wasson and Charles R. AclandPart I. Celluloid Classrooms“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 OstherrPart II. Civic CircuitsProjecting 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 GriffithsPart III. Making Useful FilmsDouble 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 ZrydFilmography; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index

Recenzii

“Often, in common understanding, education is seen as opposed to entertainment. But this rich and fascinating volume puts the lie to such assumption both by showing how, across the decades, ‘useful’ cinema was measured in relation to Hollywood entertainment and indeed interacted with it in complex fashion and by doing so through essays that are themselves compelling and captivating, eloquent and enjoyable. It is itself, in other words, a masterful blend of the entertaining and the useful.” - Dana Polan, New York University

“This valuable book reveals how moving images proliferated beyond the spectacular confines of theaters to become deeply embedded in everyday life, cultures and institutions. The publication of this fascinating anthology is a welcome sign that cinema history is starting to forgo its longtime fascination with mass-produced glamour and making peace with its most utilitarian (and numerically dominant) genres.” - Rick Prelinger, founder of Prelinger Archives

"Useful Cinema begins on the perfect point, with the observation that films today ‘appear everywhere’, from ‘iPhone to Imax, from blog inserts to Jumbotrons’, so ‘becoming integral to our experience of institutional and everyday life’. Thus the histories of the older cultural forms to be found in this interesting anthology are pitched not merely as worthwhile objects of rediscovery in their own right but also as enlightening precursors of the media surrounding and saturating the lives of modern readers....Useful Cinema can confidently be recommended to anyone interested in the intricacies of the relationship between the media and the society of the 20th century – and those of the 21st." Patrick Russell, Reviews in History


"Often, in common understanding, education is seen as opposed to entertainment. But this rich and fascinating volume puts the lie to such assumption both by showing how, across the decades, 'useful' cinema was measured in relation to Hollywood entertainment and indeed interacted with it in complex fashion and by doing so through essays that are themselves compelling and captivating, eloquent and enjoyable. It is itself, in other words, a masterful blend of the entertaining and the useful." - Dana Polan, New York University "This valuable book reveals how moving images proliferated beyond the spectacular confines of theaters to become deeply embedded in everyday life, cultures and institutions. The publication of this fascinating anthology is a welcome sign that cinema history is starting to forgo its longtime fascination with mass-produced glamour and making peace with its most utilitarian (and numerically dominant) genres." - Rick Prelinger, founder of Prelinger Archives "Useful Cinema begins on the perfect point, with the observation that films today 'appear everywhere', from 'iPhone to Imax, from blog inserts to Jumbotrons', so 'becoming integral to our experience of institutional and everyday life'. Thus the histories of the older cultural forms to be found in this interesting anthology are pitched not merely as worthwhile objects of rediscovery in their own right but also as enlightening precursors of the media surrounding and saturating the lives of modern readers...Useful Cinema can confidently be recommended to anyone interested in the intricacies of the relationship between the media and the society of the 20th century - and those of the 21st." Patrick Russell, Reviews in History

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Challenges preconceived notions about just what cinema is