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OverviewA vastly influential form of filmmaking seen by millions of people, educational films provide a catalog of twentieth century preoccupations and values. As a medium of instruction and guidance, they held a powerful cultural position, producing knowledge both inside and outside the classroom. This is the first collection of essays to address this vital phenomenon. The book provides an ambitious overview of educational film practices, while each essay analyzes a crucial aspect of educational film history, ranging from case studies of films and filmmakers to broader generic and historical assessments. Offering links to many of the films, Learning With the Lights Off provides readers the context and access needed to develop a sophisticated understanding of, and a new appreciation for, a much overlooked film legacy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Devin Orgeron (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, North Carolina State University) , Marsha Orgeron (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, North Carolina State University) , Dan Streible (Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 25.40cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 18.30cm Weight: 1.089kg ISBN: 9780195383843ISBN 10: 0195383842 Pages: 544 Publication Date: 19 January 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Foreword by Thomas G. Smith Acknowledgments About the Companion Website Introduction 1: Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, and Dan Streible: A History of Learning with the Lights Off 2: Oliver Gaycken: The Cinema of the Future: Visions of the Medium as Modern Educator, 1895-1910 3: Miriam Posner: Communicating Disease: Tuberculosis, Narrative, and Social Order in Thomas Edison's Red Cross Seal Films 4: Lee Grieveson: Visualizing Industrial Citizenship 5: Alison Griffiths: Film Education in the Natural History Museum: Cinema Lights Up the Gallery in the 1920s 6: Jennifer Peterson: Glimpses of Animal Life: Nature Films and the Emergence of Classroom Cinema 7: Kirsten Ostherr: Medical Education through Film: Animating Anatomy at the American College of Surgeons and Eastman Kodak 8: Heide Solbrig: Dr. ERPI Finds His Voice: Electrical Research Products, Inc. and the Educational Film Market, 1927-1937 9: Craig Kridel: Educational Film Projects of the 1930s: Secrets of Success and the Human Relations Film Series 10: Victoria Cain: ""An Indirect Influence upon Industry"": Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Development of Educational Film in the United States, 1935-1953 11: Gregory A. Waller: Cornering The Wheat Farmer (1938) 12: Dan Streible: The Failure of the NYU Educational Film Institute 13: Devin Orgeron: Spreading the Word: Race, Religion, and the Rhetoric of Contagion in Edgar G. Ulmer's TB Films 14: Eric Schaefer: Exploitation as Education 15: Rick Prelinger: Smoothing the Contours of Didacticism: Jam Handy and His Organization 16: Katerina Loukopoulou: Museum at Large: Aesthetic Education through Film 17: Charles R. Acland: Celluloid Classrooms and Everyday Projectionsists: Post-World War II Consolidation of Community Film Activism 18: Anna McCarthy: Screen Culture and Group Discussion in Postwar Race Relations 19: Marsha Orgeron: ""A Decent and Orderly Society"": Race Relations in Riot-Era Educational Films, 1966-1970 20: Skip Elsheimer with Kimberly Pifer: Everything Old Is New Again; or, Why I Collect Educational Films 21: Elena Rossi-Snook: Continuing Ed: Educational Film Collections in Libraries and Archives 22: Elena Rossi-Snook: A Select Guide to Educational Film Collections Contributors Index"ReviewsLearning with the Lights Off takes on a broad but remarkably understudied area of film history with zest and depth. In exploring film's educational mission-both real and imagined-each essay in this extraordinary collection gives new insight and meaning to the 'discourse of sobriety' which scholars of nonfiction such as Bill Nichols have seen as its keystone feature. This is a rich and textured investigation that will expand scholarly focus from 'the documentary' to the 'nonfiction film,' which includes such categories as the industrial, instructional, and informational program. * Charles Musser, Yale University * Learning with the Lights Off is a welcome contribution to the literature on educational filmmaking in the United States... * Journal of Film and Video * Learning with the Lights Off takes on a broad but remarkably understudied area of film history with zest and depth. In exploring film's educational mission-both real and imagined-each essay in this extraordinary collection gives new insight and meaning to the 'discourse of sobriety' which scholars of nonfiction such as Bill Nichols have seen as its keystone feature. This is a rich and textured investigation that will expand scholarly focus from 'the documentary' to the 'nonfiction film, ' which includes such categories as the industrial, instructional, and informational program. --Charles Musser, Yale University <br> Learning with the Lights Off takes on a broad but remarkably understudied area of film history with zest and depth. In exploring film's educational mission-both real and imagined-each essay in this extraordinary collection gives new insight and meaning to the 'discourse of sobriety' which scholars of nonfiction such as Bill Nichols have seen as its keystone feature. This is a rich and textured investigation that will expand scholarly focus from 'the documentary' to the 'nonfiction film, ' which includes such categories as the industrial, instructional, and informational program. --Charles Musser, Yale University<p><br> Author InformationDevin Orgeron is Associate Professor at North Carolina State University and co-editor of The Moving Image, the journal of the Association for Moving Image Archivists. He is the author of Road Movies. Marsha Orgeron is Associate Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University and co-editor of The Moving Image, the journal of Association for Moving Image Archivists. She is the author of Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age. Dan Streible teaches cinema studies at New York University, where he is also associate director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. He directs the Orphan Film Project and its biennial symposium. He is the author of Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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