Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Utility and Cinema 1
5. 1. Celluloid Classrooms
6. “What a Power for Education!”: The Cinema and Sites of Learning in the 1930s 17
7. “We Can See Ourselves as Others See Us”: Women Workers and Western Union’s Training Films in the 1920s 34
8. Hollywood’s Educators: Mark May and Teaching Film Custodians 59
9. Unesco, Film, and Education: Mediating Postwar Paradigms of Communication 81
10. Health Films, Cold War, and the Production of Patriotic Audiences: The Body Fights Bacteria (1948) 103
11. 2. Civic Circuits
12. Projecting the Promise of 16mm, 1935–45 125
13. A History Long Overdue: The Public Library and Motion Pictures 149
14. Big, Fast Museums / Small, Slow Movies: Film, Scale, and the Art Museum 178
15. Pastoral Exhibition: The YMCA Motion Picture Bureau and the Transition to 16mm, 1928–39 205
16. “A Moving Picture of the Heavens”: The Planetarium Space Show as Useful Cinema 230
17. 3. Making useful films
18. Double Vision: World War II, Racial Uplift, and the All- American Newsreel’s Pedagogical Address 263
19. Mechanical Craftsmanship: Amateurs Making Practical Films 289
20. Experimental Film as Useless Cinema 315
21. Filmography 337
22. Bibliography 343
23. About the Contributors 365
24. Index 369