Watch and Learn: Rhetorical Devices in Classroom Films after 1940

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,...

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Main Author: Masson, Eef (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2012]
Series:Framing Film
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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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)
Physical Description:1 online resource 30 halftones
ISBN:9789048514113
DOI:10.1515/9789048514113

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