Films that Work

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)

• 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.