{"id":721,"date":"2011-03-07T08:34:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T15:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2011-03-07T08:39:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T15:39:47","slug":"learning-with-the-lights-off-educational-film-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/learning-with-the-lights-off-educational-film-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Film-Based<\/a>
"1975: And the Changes to Come," by dbostrom. Apparently it's a "film-based teaching machine."<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m excited that we have a publication date for an essay collection I’m contributing to. Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States<\/em> will be published by Oxford in winter 2011. The editors are Marsha Orgeron, Devin Orgeron, and Dan Streible. From the flyer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Learning with the Lights Off is the first collection of essays to address the phenomenon of film\u2019s educational uses in twentieth-century America. Nontheatrical film 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\u2019s powerful role in twentieth century American culture as a medium of instruction and guidance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My essay is on Thomas Edison’s Red Cross Seal films, which I’ve posted about here<\/a>. I really liked working with Marsha, Devin, and Dan. Their edits made my work much, much stronger. The full list of contributors:<\/p>\n

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Introduction: A History of Learning with the Lights Off, Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, and Dan Streible<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Cinema of the Future: Visions of the Medium as Modern Educator, 1895-1910, Oliver Gaycken<\/p>\n

2. Communicating Disease: Tuberculosis, Narrative, and Social Order in Thomas Edison’s Red Cross Seal Films, Miriam Posner<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Visualizing Industrial Citizenship, Lee Grieveson<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Film Education in the Natural History Museum: Cinema Lights Up the Gallery in the 1920s, Alison Griffiths<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Glimpses of Animal Life: Nature Films and the Emergence of Classroom Cinema, Jennifer Peterson<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Medical Education through Film: Animating Anatomy at the American College of Surgeons and Eastman Kodak, Kirsten Ostherr<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dr. ERPI Finds His Voice: Electrical Research Products, Inc. and the Educational Film Market, 1927-1937, Heide Solbrig<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Educational Film Projects of the 1930s: Secrets of Success and the Human Relations Series, Craig Kridel<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cEducation, Broadly Interpreted”: Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Development of Educational Film, 1935-1946, Victoria Cain<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Cornering The Wheat Farmer (1938), Gregory A. Waller<\/p>\n

11.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0The Failure of the NYU Educational Film Institute, Dan Streible<\/p>\n

12.\u00a0\u00a0 Spreading the Word: Race, Religion, and the Rhetoric of Contagion in Edgar G. Ulmer’s TB Films,Devin Orgeron<\/p>\n

13.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Exploitation as Education, Eric Schaefer<\/p>\n

14.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Smoothing the Contours of Didacticism: Jam Handy and His Organization, Rick Prelinger<\/p>\n

15.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Museum at Large: Aesthetic Education through Film, Katerina Loukopoulou<\/p>\n

16.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Celluloid Classrooms and Everyday Projectionists: Post-WWII Consolidation of Community Film Activism, Charles R. Acland<\/p>\n

17.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Screen Culture and Group Discussion in Postwar Race Relations, Anna McCarthy<\/p>\n

18.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0“A Decent and Orderly Society”: Race Relations in Riot-Era Educational Films, 1966-1970, Marsha Orgeron<\/p>\n

19.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Everything Old Is New Again; or, Why I Collect Educational Films, Skip Elsheimer with Kimberly Pifer<\/p>\n

20.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Continuing Ed: Educational Film Collections in Libraries and Archives, Elena Rossi-Snook<\/p>\n

21.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0A Select Guide to Educational Film Collections, Elena Rossi-Snook<\/p>\n

It’s exciting to be in such august company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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