Watch and learn : rhetorical devices in classroom films after 1940 / Eef Masson..

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masson, Eef, author.

Series:

Framing film (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Framing film

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures in education.

Audio-visual education.

Educational films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

Instructional films of the twentieth century, used to teach, train, inform, or advertise to their viewers, can provide historians and scholars of cinema studies with a wealth of information about both their creators and intended consumers. Watch and Learn focuses on the rhetoric used in these films, particularly the way in which the films used in the classroom relate to their audience, casting them both as film viewers and students. Providing the outline for a new methodology for interpreting and understanding the scripts and visuals of this peculiar brand of cinema, this book approaches the study of instructional films from a novel and illuminating perspective.

Contents:

Film for education: debates, idea(l)s and practices

Classroom film use and the pedagogical Dispositif

Rhetoric: text and frame

Textual rhetoric I: motivational devices

Textual rhetoric II: referencing the pedagogical dispositif

Conclusions: towards a conception of the dispositif notion as a comparative tool.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)

ISBN:

9789048514113

9048514118

OCLC:

829905893