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Mental Hygiene: Better Living Through Classroom Films 1945-1970 [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Ken Smith (Autor)
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  • Taschenbuch: 240 Seiten
  • Verlag: Blast Books; Auflage: illustrated edition (Dezember 1999)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 0922233217
  • ISBN-13: 978-0922233212
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,9 x 1,8 x 25,4 cm
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  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 191.729 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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In Mental Hygiene, Ken Smith takes a look at the endearingly gooney safety and "social guidance" films produced for classroom use between World War II and the early 1970s. Everything from dating to drugs to auto safety is covered in this lovingly compiled book. Smith even takes the time to discuss the stylistic differences of the various studios and analyze the peculiar obsessions of their auteurs. Though its subjects are bizarre ("Healthy Feet"), corny ("Teen Togs"), and often ineptly made ("Red Nightmare"), Mental Hygiene is no mere excuse to mock these films. Smith is careful to note bursts of good (or at least interesting) filmmaking and makes a convincing case that in their day these classroom movies were considered the new wave of liberal education. The films, catalogued at the end of the book, teeter between unintentionally hilarious ("More Dates for Kay") and just flat-out disturbing ("Boys Beware"). Most take the stance that teens who drive too fast or don't mind their manners deserve their horrific fates. For example, the auto safety films tend toward subtly titled epics like "Mechanized Death" and "Wheels of Tragedy," while the "image building" shorts mercilessly taunt their misfit protagonists. ("It's a little late for tears, isn't it, Barbara?") A thoroughly enjoyable read, Mental Hygiene is both funny and informative, but not so informative that it will put you to sleep in class. --Ali Davis

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Among the most pervasive and pernicious forms of 1950s cultural indoctrination was the mental hygiene film, extolling proper behavior to captive audiences of schoolchildren. Blatantly and crudely designed, the genre's products instilled proper dating practices and showed the consequences of failing to avoid drugs and of car wrecks. No social problem was too big for them, not even juvenile delinquency and the atom bomb. Mostly, as Smith shows, they aimed to maintain conformity. Evolved from World War II training films, they flourished from 1945 to the early 1960s, when the growing sophistication of their target audience rendered them ineffective. Smith synopsizes well more than a hundred leading examples, from Act Your Age (1949), which offered tips on emotional development, to the seminal Youth in Crisis (1944), which exposed "the grim story of what the war is doing to America's youth!" Most mental hygiene films have vanished, discarded when their message grew dated, but they live again through Smith's diligent research and witty write-ups, more fun to read than watching them ever was. Gordon Flagg
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Makes a Great Gift Book 15. Juli 2000
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This book really is very fascinating and highly entertaining. I finished it in one sitting, and I've bought several copies for my friends. I recommend it to everyone.
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I have to confess: I did not read this book because I'm interested in the social mores of the late 40's-50's. I read it because of these shorts being shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000. (Oh yeah, I also suffered through some of these as a tail-end baby boomer.) The author matches the history of "Mental Hygiene" films and studios with the ongoing social concerns of the time. As you might guess this would be the 50's; the golden age of educational shorts. The underlying emphases on conformity and consumption are well illustrated, but the counterculture influence in the shorts of the late 60's/70's is criticized as well. The book also has "plot" summaries for many of the films mentioned as examples in the narrative. The downside for me was none of the educational films done by Dr Frank Baxter are in the book. His monotonal "Roll Five Bill" and anthropomorphic manifestations of FUSION and "Hemo" still haunt any kid from Utah in the early 70's...
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WOW 23. Juni 2000
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Great subject matter for a book! I read it immediately and referred it to all my friends and some strangers. I'm eagerly awaiting Ken's next work.
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Perfect.
The best thing about this book is the author's treatment of the subject. Yes, he pokes fun at it. But he never takes a smug, superior,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 31. Mai 2000 von Amanda Reno
How Young America's Minds Were Molded
An examination of short films that baby-boomers were subjected to. Engagingly written, for the most part. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Mai 2000 von Steambrew
Reading Dos and Don'ts
I loved this book! Ken brought back all the humor and horror of high school health class. I found it interesting that, if you believed these films, running with scissors could kill... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 20. Februar 2000 von Beach2
Mental Hygiene Films is the most enjoyable book in ages
I, too, am boring everyone around me with yet another passage that is too funny/scary. I am 50 years of age and am especially enjoying sharing with my under-30 colleagues. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
Hysterically funny look at the conspiracy to twist our minds
As a die-hard devotee of MST3K "shorts", I was delighted when I came across this book. While the entire book makes for good reading, my favorite part was the section... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Februar 2000 von Mary Johnson
Thanks, Ken. It was the kind of swell fun I really like.
I bought it for me. I irritated everyone at work by reading funny parts aloud. Now I'm going to buy another for my older brother and one for his only child so she will understand... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Februar 2000 von Shannon G. Carreiro
Absolutely hilarious
I loved this book. I had seen some of these films, either parodied on MST3K or in my driver's ed. classes in high school. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Februar 2000 von C. K. Mavromatis
Is there a video companion to this book?
Can anyone tell me how to get the video with examples of these films?
Am 22. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
Mental Hygiene
I thought this was a smart, funny, often disturbing book, very worth reading. A word of caution for gift-buyers, however: Smith illustrates with plenty of stills, some from the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Dezember 1999 von JANE
Turn you head and cough....and laugh!
Once you pick this book up, you can not put it down, I know I couldn't. I have always been a big fan of these films, the kind that we are forced to watch in school. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. Dezember 1999 von News Nut
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