Recommended Texts/DVDs For Classroom Teachers
link to streaming video clips about film
link to books for K-12 students


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9781856697200 -  Film A Critical Introduction

Basics Film-making: The Language of Film by John Marlan


Moving Images, Making Movies,
Understanding Media
(Feb 2010)
Unscene Art of Hollywood
The Unseen Art of Hollywood
A Retrospective of Film Storyboards
November 2009

Third Ed, w/DVD
October 2009

The Director In The Classroom
How Filmmaking Inspires Learning
2009 Revised Edition
companion website 



Viewfinder: An Introduction to Movies
and Visual Media in the Digital Age

Through the Lens
Reading Film Texts in the English Classroom

 


Reel Diversity:
A Teacher's Sourcebook

(Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern
Theory of Education)

Movie Power
(UK)

Reading in the Reel World: Teaching
Documentaries
and Other Nonfiction Texts

Publisher: NCTE





Text & CD-ROM
 
  
     The Movies: videogame  Link  
Official website  

Great Films and 
How to Teach Them

William Costanzo
NCTE, ISBN: 0-8141-3909-4
link to publisher

Real Images
Film and Television
(2nd Ed)
Barrie McMahon, Robyn Quin
ISBN: 0-7329-2944-X

Understanding Film Texts
Meaning and Experience

Making Movies
Make Sense

Understanding & Using
Film Language (CD ROM)
bookshot
4th edition
How To Read A Film
DVD 

Seeing & Believing

Reading In The Dark:
Using Film as A Tool in
The English Classroom
Read excerpt:
Film & Reading Strategies

Visual Messages

Reel Conversations
Boynton/Cook/
0-86709-377-3/1996/202 pp/paperback

Reading The Movies
American History on the Screen:  Film and Video, 2nd Edition
American History
On the Screen

J Weston Walch
Making Grimm Movies
Making Grimm Movies
Making Grimm Movies is a sixty-minute video
divided into classroom convenient 20-minute parts that teach the basic principles of creative moviemaking
Ideology and the Image