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4 Digital Afterlife of Industrial Film . Weak Dispositives, Choice Architecture and the Distribution of Industrial Cinema

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© 2023 Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter 1
  2. Table of Contents 5
  3. List of Illustrations 9
  4. Introduction: A Sequel and a Shift 19
  5. Section 1 Networks and Flows: Visualizing Value Chains
  6. 1 The Aesthetics of the Global Value Chain Container Shipping, Media Networks and the Problem of Visibility in the Global Sphere of Circulation 37
  7. 2 Object Lessons and Infrastructural Imperialism 105
  8. 3 Energy and Industrial Film. Energo-Critical Registers 123
  9. 4 Digital Afterlife of Industrial Film . Weak Dispositives, Choice Architecture and the Distribution of Industrial Cinema 143
  10. Section 2 Operative Iconographies, Industry and the Nation State
  11. 5 Beautiful Luxembourg, Steel Works and a Swimming Pool . The Corporate Film Columeta and the Formation of a Corporate and a National Image 175
  12. 6 Hydropower for a Sealess Nation . Representation of Water Energy in Czech Visual Culture 203
  13. 7 Modern Water Sprites . History, People and the Landscape of Northern Sweden in Vattenfall’s Film Production in the 1950s 227
  14. 8 Taxonomy of Techniques . Visions of Industrial Cinema in Post-war Japan 249
  15. 9 The Power of Flows . The Spatiality of Industrial Films on Hydropower in Switzerland 275
  16. Section 3 Institutions and Distribution Frameworks: Archives, Festivals, Fairs
  17. 10 Industry on Screen . The British Documentary in Distribution – British Transport Films: A Case Study 299
  18. 11 On the Red Carpet in Rouen . Industrial Film Festivals and a World Community of Filmmakers 317
  19. 12 Cinema and Industrial Design . Showmanship, Fairs and the Exhibition Film 339
  20. Section 4 Teaching Oneself and Others
  21. 13 Putting Films to Work . System, the Magazine for Business 365
  22. 14 New Media for the Schools of Tomorrow . The AV Instructional Films of Robert W. Wagner 391
  23. 15 We Must Know More Than We Can See . Images for Vocational Training and the Emergence of Cognitive Ergonomics 423
  24. 16 Free Enterprise Film . Aims of Industry, Economic Propaganda and the Development of a Neoliberal Cinema 447
  25. Section 5 Post/Colonial Industries and Third Industrial Cinemas
  26. 17 Framing Local and International Sentiments and Sounds . Unilever and Royal Dutch Shell in a Changing Nigeria 473
  27. 18 Working through the End of Empire 495
  28. 19 Cinema-going on the Railway Tracks . Transportation, Circulation and Exhibition of Information Film in Colonial India 513
  29. 20 The Latin American Process Film 533
  30. Section 6 Production Cultures and/of the Industrial Film: Amateurs and Professionals
  31. 21 Soviet Industrial Film across Categories . Negotiating between Utility, Art and Science 557
  32. 22 “There Is No Life More Reckless and Adventuresome Than That of the Oil Prospector” . ENI’s Geologist-Filmmakers in Iran 581
  33. 23 Industrial Film from the Home Studio . Amateur Cinema and Low-Budget Corporate Moving Image Culture in West Germany (1950 to 1977) 611
  34. 24 Movie and Industry in Italy . The “Golden Age” of Italian Industrial Documentary (1950–1970) 635
  35. 25 A Film That Doesn’t Seem to Work . A Shot of Renault’s Early Assembly Line (1920 to 1929) – A Case Study, Methodology and 3D Restitution for Film Analysis 651
  36. Section 7 Ephemeral Artistry: Ecologies of Authorship in Industrial Cinema
  37. 26 Business and Art . Pharmaceutical Industries, Film Production and Circulation, and the French Film Production Company ScienceFilm, 1960–1980 683
  38. 27 Transfer of Power . Films Officers in the British Coal Industry 711
  39. 28 Saudi Arabia’s John Ford? . Robert Yarnall Richie, Desert Venture and Ephemeral Authorship in Industrial Film 737
  40. 29 Sounds Industrial . Understanding the Contribution of Music and Sound in Industrial Films 757
  41. 30 Creative Films for Creative Corporations . Music and Musicians in Experimental Italian Industrial Films 779
  42. Indices 799
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