Watch and Learn
Rhetorical Devices in Classroom Films after 1940
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
372 pages
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30 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 2012
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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One
1. Film for Education: Debates, Idea(l)s and Practices
Introduction
1.1 Film as an Educational Tool
1.1.1. Possibilities
1.1.2 Limitations
1.2 The Classroom Film: Institutionalisation
1.2.1 NOF: Organisation and Procedures
1.2.2 NOF: Rules and Regulations
Conclusions
2. Classroom Film use and the Pedagogical Dispositif
Introduction
2.1 The Reception and Use of Classroom Films
2.1.1. Scepticism and Resistance
2.1.2 Some Hypotheses on Film Usage
2.2 Classroom Films and the Pedagogical Dispositif
Conclusions
Part Two
3. Rhetoric: Text & Frame
Introduction
3.1 Rhetoric: Conceptual Exploration
3.2 Framing Rhetoric
3.3 Textual Rhetoric
Conclusions
4. Textual Rhetoric I: Motivational Devices
Introduction
4.1 Textual Motivation: Foci and Strategies
4.1.1 Matter Made Appealing
4.1.2 Viewing Made Appealing
4.2 Strategies of Motivation: Blurred Boundaries
4.3 Textual Motivation Reconsidered: Didactic Matter and Periphrasis
Conclusions
5. Textual Rhetoric II: Referencing the Pedagogical Dispositif
Introduction
5.1 References to the Dispositif: the Discursive Variety
5.2 A Historical Perspective
5.3 Referencing the Dispositif and Issues of Authority
Conclusions
Conclusions: Towards a Conception of the Dispositif Notion as a Comparative Tool
Notes
List of Illustrations
NOF Films Online
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Part One
1. Film for Education: Debates, Idea(l)s and Practices
Introduction
1.1 Film as an Educational Tool
1.1.1. Possibilities
1.1.2 Limitations
1.2 The Classroom Film: Institutionalisation
1.2.1 NOF: Organisation and Procedures
1.2.2 NOF: Rules and Regulations
Conclusions
2. Classroom Film use and the Pedagogical Dispositif
Introduction
2.1 The Reception and Use of Classroom Films
2.1.1. Scepticism and Resistance
2.1.2 Some Hypotheses on Film Usage
2.2 Classroom Films and the Pedagogical Dispositif
Conclusions
Part Two
3. Rhetoric: Text & Frame
Introduction
3.1 Rhetoric: Conceptual Exploration
3.2 Framing Rhetoric
3.3 Textual Rhetoric
Conclusions
4. Textual Rhetoric I: Motivational Devices
Introduction
4.1 Textual Motivation: Foci and Strategies
4.1.1 Matter Made Appealing
4.1.2 Viewing Made Appealing
4.2 Strategies of Motivation: Blurred Boundaries
4.3 Textual Motivation Reconsidered: Didactic Matter and Periphrasis
Conclusions
5. Textual Rhetoric II: Referencing the Pedagogical Dispositif
Introduction
5.1 References to the Dispositif: the Discursive Variety
5.2 A Historical Perspective
5.3 Referencing the Dispositif and Issues of Authority
Conclusions
Conclusions: Towards a Conception of the Dispositif Notion as a Comparative Tool
Notes
List of Illustrations
NOF Films Online
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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