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By exploring the use of film in mid-twentieth-century institutions, including libraries, museums, classrooms, and professional organizations, the essays in Useful Cinema show how moving images became an ordinary feature of American life. In venues such as factories and community halls, people encountered industrial, educational, training, advertising, and other types of "useful cinema." Screening these films transformed unlikely spaces, conveyed ideas, and produced subjects in the service of public and private aims. Such functional motion pictures helped to shape common sense about cinema's place in contemporary life. Whether measured in terms of the number of films shown, the size of audiences, or the economic activity generated, the "non-theatrical sector" was a substantial and enduring parallel to the more spectacular realm of commercial film. In Useful Cinema, scholars examine organizations such as UNESCO, the YMCA, the Amateur Cinema League, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They also consider film exhibition sites in schools, businesses, and industries. As they expand understanding of this other American cinema, the contributors challenge preconceived notions about what cinema is. Contributors: Charles R. Acland, Joseph Clark, Zoe Druick, Ronald Walter Greene, Alison Griffiths, Stephen Groening, Jennifer Horne, Kirsten Ostherr, Eric Smoodin, Charles Tepperman, Gregory A. Waller, Haidee Wasson, Michael Zryd.

Nonfiction films --- Documentary films --- Films autres que de fiction --- Documentaires --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- film --- cinema --- Films documentaires --- Histoire et critique. --- Nonstory films --- Motion pictures --- #SBIB: --- #SBIB:309H1313 --- #SBIB:309H1320 --- #SBIB:309H501 --- Geschiedenis en/of organisatie van het filmwezen: algemeen en per land (met inbegrip van de rol van het filmwezen in de ontwikkelingsproblematiek) --- De filmische boodschap: algemene werken (met inbegrip van algemeen filmhistorische werken en filmhistorische werken per land) --- Mediapedagogiek (incl. mediadidactiek) --- Nonfiction films - United States - History and criticism --- Documentary films - United States - History and criticism --- cinema. --- film.