The Institutionalization of Educational Cinema, livre ebook

The potential of films to educate has been crucial for the development of cinema intended to influence culture, and is as important as conceptions of film as a form of art, science, industry, or entertainment. Using the concept of institutionalization as a heuristic for generating new approaches to the history of educational cinema, contributors to this volume study the co-evolving discourses, cultural practices, technical standards, and institutional frameworks that transformed educational cinema from a convincing idea into an enduring genre. The Institutionalization of Educational Cinema examines the methods of production, distribution, and exhibition established for the use of educational films within institutions–such as schools, libraries, and industrial settings in various national and international contexts and takes a close look at the networks of organizations, individuals, and government agencies that were created as a result of these films' circulation. Through case studies of educational cinemas in different North American and European countries that explore various modes of institutionalization of educational film, this book highlights the wide range of vested interests that framed the birth of educational and nontheatrical cinema.

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Marina Dahlquist and Joel Frykholm

1. Platforms for Learning / Jan Olsson

2. The Kinoreformbewegung in Germany: Creating an Infrastructure for Pedagogical Screenings / Sabine Lenk and Frank Kessler

3. One Family: The Movement of Educational Film in Britain and its Empire / Tom Rice

4. Far and Close: The Gemeentelijke Schoolbioscoop in Rotterdam / Floris Paalman

5. Partners in Screen Education: Philanthropic Organizations and the Film Industry / Marina Dahlquist

6. The Best Teachers and the Best Preachers: Film, University Extension, and the Project of Assimilation in Alberta, 1917-1936 / Zoë Druick

7. "A Casual Glance Reveals a Perfect Mine of Treasures": George Kleine's Catalogue of Educational Motion Pictures (1910) / Oliver Gaycken

8. George Kleine and the Institutional Film Exchange: An Experiment in Nontheatrical Film Distribution, 1921–1929 / Joel Frykholm

9. Ford Films and Ford Viewers: Examining "Nontheatrical" Films in the Theaters and Beyond / Katy Peplin

10. Institutionalizing Educational Cinema in the United States during the Early 1920s / Gregory A. Waller