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


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as a download

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



 

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)
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