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Films that Work: Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media book cover

1st Edition

Films that Work Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media

Edited By Patrick Vonderau, Vinzenz Hediger Copyright 2009
492 Pages
by Routledge

492 Pages
by Routledge

The history of industrial films – an orphan genre of twentieth-century cinema composed of government-produced and industrially sponsored movies that sought to achieve the goals of their sponsors, rather than the creative artists involved –seems to have left no trace in filmic cultural discourse. At its height the industrial film industry employed thousands, produced several trade journals and... Read more
Introduction, I Navigating the Archive, Archives and Archaeologies, Record, Rhetoric, Rationalization, Vernacular Archiving, II Visuality and Efficiency, Early Industrial Moving Pictures in Germany, Layers of Cheese, Images of Efficiency, “What Hollywood Is to America, the Corporate Film Is to Switzerland”, Poussières,1 Thermodynamic Kitsch, III Films and Factories, Touring as a Cultural Technique, Corporate Films of Industrial Work, Filming Work on Behalf of the Automobile Firm, Eccentricity, Education and the Evolution of Corporate Speech, Centron, an Industrial/Educational Film Studio, 1947-1981, Films from Beyond the Well, IV See, Learn, Control, The Personnel Is Political, Behaviorism, Animation, and Effective Cinema, Technologies of Organizational Learning, The Central Film Library of Vocational Education, “Reality Is There, but It’s Manipulated”, V Urbanity, Industry, Film, Modernism, Industry, Film, A Modern Medium for a Modern Message, Harbor, Architecture, Film, Industrial Films, The Desiderata of Business-Film Research1, Contributors, Index of Names, Index of Film Titles, Index of Subjects.

Biography

Patrick Vonderau is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Halle, Germany. Vinzenz Hediger is professor of cinema studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, where he directs the Graduate Research Training Program Configurations of film (www.konfigrationen-des-films.de). His publications include Films that Work. Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media (Amsterdam University Press 2009, with Patrick Vonderau) and Essays zur Filmphilosophie (Fink 2015, with Lorenz Engell, Oliver Fahle and Christiane Voss). He is a co-founder of NECS – European Network of Cinema and Media Studies (www.necs.org) and the founding editor of Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (www.zfmedienwissenschaft.de)

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