Created by frank capra. This is about 45 minutes. All right. So good afternoon and welcome. Today were going to talk about cold war era Science Education films, in particular ones that were made for tv and the classroom. Now, weve been talking about classroom films before. Really to do any kind of history of classroom films you need to understand the scholarship in a lot of fields. So i will be quoting and referencing and putting together a list that ive done, work thats been done by historians of science, film studies people, Communication Studies scholars. So this will be particularly interesting. For reasons that should by now be obvious, the topic is interdisciplinarian. We are going to return to this question, what are the relationships between art, science, entertainment and clul occur. In cinema how did they reinforce one another in these particular contexts. Were going to see the movement of people, the same people across institutions, right, across media forums and across scie
All right. So good afternoon and welcome. Today were going to talk about cold war era Science Education films, in particular ones that were made for tv and the classroom. Now, weve been talking about classroom films before. Really to do any kind of history of classroom films you need to understand the scholarship in a lot of fields. So i will be quoting and referencing and pulling together work that ive done and other historians of science, film studies people, Communication Studies scholars. Even folklorists. So this will be particularly interesting. For reasons that should by now be obvious, the topic is interdisciplinarian. So in particular were going to return to this question, right, what are the relationships between art, science, entertainment and culture. In cinema how did they reinforce one another in these particular contexts. Were going to see the movement of people, the same people across institutions, right, across media forums and across science. So it is all going to be
To do any kind of history of classroom film, you need to understand the scholarship in a lot of fields, im going to be quoting and referencing and pulling together work that ive done, work thats been done by other historians of science. Film studies people. Communications studies scholars, even folk lorists. For reasons that should now be obvious, the topic is interdisciplinary. In particular were going to return to this question, right. What are the relations between art, science and entertainment and culture, in cinema . How do they reinforce one another in these particular contexts . Were going to see the movement of people, the same people across institutions, right, across media forums. And across science. So its all going to be kind of blending together. And also Science Education. Obviously in Science Education what students are taught depends on what the stateoftheart knowledge is for that period. We have to consider what is the scientific and technical knowledge. To understand
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