Title & Author:

Films that work harder : the circulation of industrial film / edited by Vinzenz Hediger, Florian Hoof, Yvonne Zimmermann with Scott Anthony.

Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2024]
©2024

Description:

1 online resource (822 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Film culture in transition

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: a sequel and a shift / Vinzenz Hediger, Florian Hoof, Yvonne Zimmermann -- Section 1. Networks and flows: visualizing value chains -- 1. The aesthetics of the global value chain: container shipping, media networks and the problem of visibility in the global sphere of circulation / Vinzenz Hediger -- 2. Object lessons and infrastructural imperialism / Lee Grieveson -- 3. Energy and industrial film: energo-critical registers / Thomas Turnbull -- 4. Digital afterlife of industrial film: weak dispositives, choice architecture and the distribution of industrial cinema / Florian Hoof -- Section 2. Operative iconographies, industry and the nation state -- 5. Beautiful Luxembourg, steel works and a swimming pool: the corporate film columeta and the formation of a corporate and a national image / Ira Plein -- 6. Hydropower for a sealess nation: representation of water energy in Czech visual culture / Lucie Česálková -- 7. Modern water sprites: history, people and the landscape of northern Sweden in Vattenfall’s film production in the 1950s / Fabian Zimmer -- 8. Taxonomy of techniques: visions of industrial cinema in post-war Japan / Takuya Tsunoda -- 9. The power of flows: the spatiality of industrial films on hydropower in Switzerland / Yvonne Zimmermann -- Section 3. Institutions and distribution frameworks: archives, festivals, fairs -- 10. Industry on screen: the British documentary in distribution - British transport films: a case study / Steve Foxon -- 11. On the red carpet in Rouen: industrial film festivals and a world community of filmmakers / Brian Jacobson -- 12. Cinema and industrial design: showmanship, fairs and the exhibition film / Haidee Wasson -- Section 4. Teaching oneself and others -- 13. Putting films to work: System, the magazine for business / Gregory A. Waller -- 14. New media for the schools of tomorrow: the AV instructional films of Robert W. Wagner / Charles R. Acland -- 15. We must know more than we can see: images for vocational training and the emergence of cognitive ergonomics / Guilherme Machado -- 16. Free enterprose film: aims of industry, economic propaganda and the development of a neoliberal cinema / Scott Anthony -- Section 5. Post/colonial industries and third industrial cinemas -- 17. Framing local and international sentiments and sounds: Unilever and Royal Dutch Shell in a changing Nigeria / Rudmer Canjels -- 18. Working through the end of empire / Tom Rice -- 19. Cinema-going on the railway tracks: transportation, circulation and exhibition of information film in colonial India / Ravi Vasudevan -- 20. The Latin American process film / Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky -- Section 6. Production cultures and/of the industrial film: amateurs and professionals -- 21. Soviet industrial film across categories: negotiating between utility, art and science / Maria Vinogradova -- 22. "There is no life more reckless and adventuresome than that of the oil prospector": ENI's geologist-filmmakers in Iran / Luca Peretti -- 23. Industrial film from the home studio: amateur cinema and low-budget corporate moving image culture in West Germany (1950 to 1977) / Alexander Stark -- 24. Movie and industry in Italy: the "golden age" of Italian industrial documentary (1950-1970) / Anna Maria Falchero -- 25. A film that doesn't seem to work: a shot of Renault's early assembly line (1920 to 1929) - a case study, methodology and 3D restitution for film analysis / Alain P. Michel -- Section 7. Ephemeral artistry: ecologies of authorship in industrial cinema -- 26. Business and art: pharmaceutical industries, film production and circulation, and the French film production company ScienceFilm, 1960-1980 / Christian Bonah -- 27. Transfer of power: films officers in the British coal industry / Patrick Russell -- 28. Saudi Arabia's John Ford?: Robert Yarnall Richie, Desert Venture and ephemeral authorship in industrial film / Martin Stollery -- 29. Sounds industrial: understanding the contribution of music and sound in industrial films / Annette Davison -- 30. Creative films for creative corporations: music and musicians in experimental Italian industrial films / Alessandro Cecchi.

Summary:

What unleashed the forces of global capitalism which continue to shape the world that we live in? Economists and economic historians variously point to innovations in logistics and trade, the emergence of a new set of business-friendly values and the emergence of new forms of applied knowledge in early modernity to solve this riddle. This book focuses on the moving image as a factor of economic development. In a series of in-depth cases studies at the intersection of film and media studies, science and technology studies and economic and social history, 'Films That Work Harder: The Circulations of Industrial Film' presents an in-depth, global perspective on the dynamic relationship between film, industrial organization and economic development. Bringing together new research from leading scholars from Europe, Asia, Australia and North America, this book combines the state of the art in the field with an agenda for a future research.

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ISBN:

9048537819 (electronic bk.)
9789048537815 (electronic bk.)
9789462986534

Subject:

Industrial films History and criticism.
Industrial films Economic aspects.
Performing arts.
Films d'entreprise Histoire et critique.
Films d'entreprise Aspect économique.
Arts du spectacle.
performing arts (discipline)
Media studies.
ART / Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Design / General.
Capitalism
Film criticism
Motion pictures
Culture and globalization
Historiography
Film history, theory or criticism.
Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills.
Industrial relations and trade unions law.
Film, Media, and Communication
FMC
Film Studies
FILM
Media Studies
MEDIA
Science and Technology
SC & TECH
Industrial film, non-theatrical film, film studies and science and technology studies, economic history, visual culture

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
Collections
Film criticism.
Critiques cinématographiques.

Added entries:

Hediger, Vinzenz, 1969- editor.
Hoof, Florian, editor.
Zimmermann, Yvonne, editor.
Anthony, Scott, 1977- editor.
Film culture in transition.