Films You Saw in School

Informationen zum Autor Geoff Alexander has authored two books on cinema and has written on musical subjects ranging from jazz history to flamenco. He is the founder and director of the Academic Film Archive of North America, in San Jose, California, the first archive solely dedicated to the history, preservation, and scholarship of the classroom educational film. Klappentext Millions of dollars in public funds were allocated to school districts in the post-Sputnik era for the purchase of educational films, resulting in thousands of 16mm films being made by exciting young filmmakers. This book discusses more than 1,000 such films, including many available to view today on the Internet. People ranging from adult film stars to noted physicists appeared in them, some notable directors made them, people died filming them, religious entities attempted to ban them, and even the companies that made them tried to censor them. Here, this remarkable body of work is classified into seven subject categories, within which some of the most effective and successful films are juxtaposed against those that were didactic and plodding treatments of similar thematic material. This book, which discusses specific academic classroom films and genres, is a companion volume to the author's Academic Films for the Classroom: A History (McFarland), which discusses the people and companies that made these films. Zusammenfassung "This book discusses more than 1!000 educational films. Here! this remarkable body of work is classified into seven subject categories! within which some of the most effective and successful films are juxtaposed against those that were didactic and plodding treatments of similar thematic material. Many of the films are fascinating! and much of their content remains relevant. "-- Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Thomas G. SmithPrefaceList of AbbreviationsOne Social Science and Geography FilmsTwo History FilmsThree Science and Math FilmsFour Arts and Crafts FilmsFive Literature and Language Arts FilmsSix Sociodrama FilmsSeven Foreign Language Instructional FilmsAppendix A: 209 Films Available for Free Viewing OnlineAppendix B: RequiemChapter NotesBibliographyIndex...

Autorentext
Geoff Alexander has authored two books on cinema and has written on musical subjects ranging from jazz history to flamenco. He is the founder and director of the Academic Film Archive of North America, in San Jose, California, the first archive solely dedicated to the history, preservation, and scholarship of the classroom educational film.

Klappentext
Millions of dollars in public funds were allocated to school districts in the post-Sputnik era for the purchase of educational films, resulting in thousands of 16mm films being made by exciting young filmmakers. This book discusses more than 1,000 such films, including many available to view today on the Internet. People ranging from adult film stars to noted physicists appeared in them, some notable directors made them, people died filming them, religious entities attempted to ban them, and even the companies that made them tried to censor them. Here, this remarkable body of work is classified into seven subject categories, within which some of the most effective and successful films are juxtaposed against those that were didactic and plodding treatments of similar thematic material. This book, which discusses specific academic classroom films and genres, is a companion volume to the author's Academic Films for the Classroom: A History (McFarland), which discusses the people and companies that made these films.

Zusammenfassung
"This book discusses more than 1,000 educational films. Here, this remarkable body of work is classified into seven subject categories, within which some of the most effective and successful films are juxtaposed against those that were didactic and plodding treatments of similar thematic material. Many of the films are fascinating, and much of their content remains relevant. "--

Inhalt
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Thomas G. Smith
Preface
List of Abbreviations
One Social Science and Geography Films
Two History Films
Three Science and Math Films
Four Arts and Crafts Films
Five Literature and Language Arts Films
Six Sociodrama Films
Seven Foreign Language Instructional Films
Appendix A: 209 Films Available for Free Viewing Online
Appendix B: Requiem
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

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