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Orgeron / Streible

Learning with the Lights Off

Educational Film in the United States

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-19-538383-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 01.01.2012
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Learning With the Lights Off is the first collection of essays to address the phenomenon of film's educational uses in twentieth century America. Nontheatrical films in general and educational films in particular represent an exciting new area of inquiry in media and cultural studies. This collection illuminates a vastly influential form of filmmaking seen by millions of people around the world. The essays reveal significant insights into film's powerful
role in twentieth century American culture as a medium of instruction and guidance.

The book features an ambitious introductory overview of educational film practices that provides readers with a sense of how important a role film has played in producing knowledge in America both inside the classroom and out. Each essay analyzes in close detail some crucial aspect of educational film history, ranging from case studies of films and filmmakers, to analyses of genres, to broader historical assessments. Offering links to many of the films under discussion at the Internet Archive,
readers will be able to easily watch for themselves many of the films studied within the book's pages. Learning With the Lights Off is both reader and classroom friendly, affording new opportunities for studying these often hard-to-find films.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780195383836
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-538383-6
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.01.2012
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2012
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 1011 g
  • Seiten: 544
  • Format (B x H x T): 178 x 254 x 29 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Herausgeber

Edited by Devin Orgeron, Associate Professor of English, North Carolina State University, Marsha Orgeron, Associate Professor of English, North Carolina State University, and Edited by Dan Streible, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University

Devin 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 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.

Contributors:
Charles R. Acland is a professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Communication Studies.; Victoria Cain is assistant professor and faculty fellow of museum studies at New York University.; Skip Elsheimer founded and maintains the A/V Geeks Educational Film Archive of more than 23,000 educational and industrial 16mm films.; Oliver Gaycken is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Temple University.; Lee Grieveson is Reader in Film Studies and Director of the Graduate Programme in Film Studies at University College London; Alison Griffiths is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York and a member of the doctoral program in theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center.; Craig Kridel is the E. S. Gambrell Professor of Educational Studies and Curator of the Museum of Education, University of South Carolina, and 2011 Scholar in Residence at the Rockefeller Archive Center.; Katerina Loukopoulou is Henry Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the History of Art Department of University College London.; Anna McCarthy is associate professor of cinema studies at NYU and coeditor of the journal Social Text.; Kirsten Ostherr is assistant professor of English at Rice University, where she is engages in teaching and research on film and media studies, specializing in historical health films and medical imaging technologies.; Jennifer Peterson is an assistant professor in the Film Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.; Kimberly Pifer is an editor at the 3-C Institute for Social Development in Cary, North Carolina.; Miriam Posner is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University, where she is helping to develop a new digital scholarship program.; Rick Prelinger, an archivist, writer and filmmaker, founded Prelinger Archives, whose collection of educational, industrial and amateur films was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002.; Elena Rossi-Snook is the moving image archivist for the Reserve Film and Video Collection of the New York Public Library and assistant professor of film history at Pratt Institute.; Eric Schaefer teaches film and media studies at Emerson College in Boston.; Heide Solbrig is an assistant professor of media and culture in the English and Media Studies Department at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts.; Gregory A. Waller teaches in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University.