Films that work : industrial film and the productivity of media / edited by Vinzenz Hediger and Patrick Vonderau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hediger, Vinzenz, 1969-

Vonderau, Patrick.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial films--History and criticism.

Industrial films.

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (496 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2009.

Summary:

First full-length book, anthology, and annotated bibliography to explore the industrial film and its remarkable history.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; I Navigating the Archive; Archives and Archaeologies; Record, Rhetoric, Rationalization; Vernacular Archiving; II Visuality and Efficiency; Early Industrial Moving Pictures in Germany; Layers of Cheese; Images of Efficiency; "What Hollywood Is to America, the Corporate Film Is to Switzerland"; Poussières; Thermodynamic Kitsch; III Films and Factories; Touring as a Cultural Technique; Corporate Films of IndustrialWork; Filming Work on Behalf of the Automobile Firm; Eccentricity, Education and the Evolution of Corporate Speech

Centron, an Industrial/Educational Film Studio, 1947-1981Films from Beyond the Well; IV See, Learn, Control; The Personnel Is Political; Behaviorism, Animation, and Effective Cinema; Technologies of Organizational Learning; The Central Film Library of Vocational Education; "Reality Is There, but It's Manipulated"; V Urbanity, Industry, Film; Modernism, Industry, Film; A Modern Medium for a Modern Message; Harbor, Architecture, Film; Industrial Films; The Desiderata of Business-Film Research1; Contributors; Index of Names; Index of Film Titles; Index of Subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

1-04-078706-1

1-282-40164-5

9786612401640

90-485-0226-8

OCLC:

475581749

Publisher Number:

10.5117/9789089640130