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Academic Films for the Classroom : A History

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Exploring a realm of film often dismissed as campy or contrived, this book traces the history of classroom educational films from the silent era through the 1980s, when film finally began to lose ground to video-based and digital media. It profiles 35 individual academic filmmakers who played a role in bringing these roughly 100,000 16mm films to classrooms across North America, paying particular attention to auteur John Barnes and his largely neglected body of work. Other topics include the production companies contributing to the growth and development of the academic film genre; the complex history of post-Sputnik, federally-funded educational initiatives which influenced the growth of the academic film genre; and the denouement of the genre in classrooms and its resurgence on the Internet.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780786458707
  • ISBN-10: 0786458704
  • Publisher: McFarland & Company
  • Publish Date: September 2010
  • Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.97 pounds
  • Page Count: 244
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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