Watch and Learn: Rhetorical Devices in Classroom Films after 1940

Eef Masson

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2012

Watch and Learn

Rhetorical Devices in Classroom Films after 1940

Eef Masson

In the series Framing Film

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048514113

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	7
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	11
PART ONE
1. Film for Education: Debates, Idea(l)s and Practices Open Access Download PDF	27
2. Classroom Film Use and the Pedagogical Dispositif 99 Introduction Open Access Download PDF	99
PART TWO
3. Rhetoric: Text & Frame Open Access Download PDF	127
4. Textual Rhetoric I: Motivational Devices Open Access Download PDF	145
5. Textual Rhetoric II: Referencing the Pedagogical Dispositif Open Access Download PDF	209
Conclusions: Towards a Conception of the Dispositif Notion as a Comparative Tool Open Access Download PDF	241
Notes Open Access Download PDF	255
List of Illustrations Open Access Download PDF	321
NOF Films Online Open Access Download PDF	323
Filmography Open Access Download PDF	325
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	335
Index Open Access Download PDF	355

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 372
Illustrations
- Other: 30 halftones

eBook

Published: June 3, 2012
ISBN: 9789048514113