Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Masson, Eef.

Title Watch and learn : rhetorical devices in classroom films after 1940 / Eef Masson.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations.
data file
Series Framing film
Framing film (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-354) and index.
Contents Film for education: debates, idea(l)s and practices -- Classroom film use and the pedagogical Dispositif -- Rhetoric: text and frame -- Textual rhetoric I: motivational devices -- Textual rhetoric II: referencing the pedagogical dispositif -- Conclusions: towards a conception of the dispositif notion as a comparative tool.
Summary "Since the late 1990s, there has been a marked increase in academic interest in what are sometimes called 'utility films'. Intended for purposes of information, training, teaching or advertising. Although such research was long overdue, the current academic output tends to be restricted in scope, paying little attention to the films' textual features: the means they deploy in defending their informational, educational or commercial arguments. In the absence of such studies, the image survives of very 'formulaic' genres. This book seeks to modify this picture, and suggests a methodology that helps to foreground the films' rhetorical diversity. Taking her departure from a historical collection of Dutch classroom films. Masson proposes an approach that considers an audio-visual text as part of a so-called dispositif: the set-up of technology, text and viewing situation that is relevant to the specific corpus under scrutiny."--Page 4 of cover.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Motion pictures in education.
Motion pictures in education.
Educational films.
Educational films.
Audio-visual education.
Audio-visual education.
Educational films -- Netherlands -- History and criticism.
Netherlands.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Masson, Eef. Watch and learn 9789089643124 (DLC) 2012466185 (OCoLC)803755931
ISBN 9048514118 (electronic book)
9789048514113 (electronic book)
9789089643124 (Paper)
9089643125 (Paper)