Learning with the Lights Off

Learning With the Lights Off is the first collection of essays to address the phenomenon of film's educational uses in twentieth-century America. Each essay analyzes in close detail some crucial aspect of educational film history, ranging from case studies of films and filmmakers to analyses of genres and broader historical assessments.

Devin Orgeron is Associate Professor at North Carolina State University and co-editor of The Moving Image, the journal of the Association for Moving Image Archivists. He is the author of Road Movies.

Marsha Orgeron is Associate Professor of Film Studies at North Carolina State University and co-editor of The Moving Image, the journal of Association for Moving Image Archivists. She is the author of Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age.

Dan Streible is Associate Professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts / Department of Cinema Studies, where he is also associate director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. He directs the Orphan Film Project and its biennial symposium. He is the author of Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema (2008) and, with Douglas Kellner, Emile de Antonio: A Reader (2000). Streible and producers Walter Forsberg, Jonah Volk, and Alice Moscoso are releasing the two-DVD set Orphans in Space: Forgotten Films of Final Frontier (2012).