Learning with the Lights Off

Foreword by Thomas G. Smith Acknowledgments About the Companion Website Introduction

1. A History of Learning with the Lights Off, Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron, and Dan Streible 2. The Cinema of the Future: Visions of the Medium as Modern Educator, 1895-1910, Oliver Gaycken 3. Communicating Disease: Tuberculosis, Narrative, and Social Order in Thomas Edison's Red Cross Seal Films, Miriam Posner 4. Visualizing Industrial Citizenship, Lee Grieveson 5. Film Education in the Natural History Museum: Cinema Lights Up the Gallery in the 1920s, Alison Griffiths 6. Glimpses of Animal Life: Nature Films and the Emergence of Classroom Cinema, Jennifer Peterson 7. Medical Education through Film: Animating Anatomy at the American College of Surgeons and Eastman Kodak, Kirsten Ostherr 8. Dr. ERPI Finds His Voice: Electrical Research Products, Inc. and the Educational Film Market, 1927-1937, Heide Solbrig 9. Educational Film Projects of the 1930s: Secrets of Success and the Human Relations Film Series, Craig Kridel 10. "An Indirect Influence upon Industry": Rockefeller Philanthropies and the Development of Educational Film in the United States, 1935-1953, Victoria Cain 11. Cornering The Wheat Farmer (1938), Gregory A. Waller 12. The Failure of the NYU Educational Film Institute, Dan Streible 13. Spreading the Word: Race, Religion, and the Rhetoric of Contagion in Edgar G. Ulmer's TB Films, Devin Orgeron 14. Exploitation as Education, Eric Schaefer 15. Smoothing the Contours of Didacticism: Jam Handy and His Organization, Rick Prelinger 16. Museum at Large: Aesthetic Education through Film, Katerina Loukopoulou 17. Celluloid Classrooms and Everyday Projectionists: Post-World War II Consolidation of Community Film Activism, Charles R. Acland 18. Screen Culture and Group Discussion in Postwar Race Relations, Anna McCarthy 19. "A Decent and Orderly Society": Race Relations in Riot-Era Educational Films, 1966-1970, Marsha Orgeron 20. Everything Old Is New Again; or, Why I Collect Educational Films, Skip Elsheimer with Kimberly Pifer 21. Continuing Ed: Educational Film Collections in Libraries and Archives, Elena Rossi-Snook 22. A Select Guide to Educational Film Collections, Elena Rossi-Snook

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