Useful Cinema Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................1
1 CELLULOID CLASSROOMS....................17
"What a Power for Education!": The Cinema and Sites of Learning in the 1930s Eric Smoodin....................34
"We Can See Ourselves as Others See Us": Women Workers and Western Union's Training Films in the 1920s Stephen Groening....................59
Hollywood's Educators: Mark May and Teaching Film Custodians Charles R. Acland....................81
UNESCO, Film, and Education: Mediating Postwar Paradigms of Communication Zoë Druick....................103
2 CIVIC CIRCUITS....................125
Projecting the Promise of 16mm, 1935-45 Gregory A. Waller....................149
A History Long Overdue: The Public Library and Motion Pictures Jennifer Horne....................178
Big, Fast Museums / Small, Slow Movies: Film, Scale, and the Art Museum Haidee Wasson....................205
Pastoral Exhibition: The YMCa Motion Picture Bureau and the Transition to 16mm, 1928-39 Ronald Walter Greene....................230
3 MAKING USEFUL FILMS....................263
Double Vision: World War II, Racial Uplift, and the All-American Newsreel's Pedagogical Address Joseph Clark....................289
Mechanical Craftsmanship: Amateurs Making Practical Films Charles Tepperman....................315
Experimental Film as Useless Cinema Michael Zryd....................337
Filmography....................343
Bibliography....................365
About the Contributors....................369