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245 00 a| Useful cinema /c| edited by Charles R. Acland and Haidee Wasson.;

260 a| Durham [NC] :b| Duke University Press,c| 2011.;

300 a| 386 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-364) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

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650 0 a| Documentary filmsz| United Statesx| History and criticism.=| ^A1097535;

700 1 a| Acland, Charles R.,d| 1963-=| ^A355515;

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Useful cinema / edited by Charles R. Acland and Haidee Wasson.

Other author	Acland, Charles R., 1963-
Other author	Wasson, Haidee, 1970-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2011.
Description	386 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects	Nonfiction films--United States. --History and criticism. Documentary films--United States. --History and criticism.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-364) and index.
LCCN	2011010726
ISBN	9780822349976 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0822349973 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780822350095 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0822350092 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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