Watch and Learn: Rhetorical Devices in Classroom Films After 1940 (Framing Film, Band 2) - Softcover

Masson, Eef

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9089643125 ISBN 13: 9789089643124

Verlag: Pallas Publications, 2012

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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.

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Eef Masson is assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

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Sinds de late jaren negentig is er een toenemende academische belangstelling voor zogenoemde 'gebruiksfilms': films die bedoeld zijn om te informeren, te trainen of onderwijzen, of te overtuigen van het nut van een service of product. Onderzoek richtte zich tot nu toe vooral op de productie- of distributiegeschiedenis van dergelijke films, of hun p

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pallas Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9089643125
• ISBN 13: 9789089643124
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 372
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