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NEW:
Hollywood's
Version of Archaeology
Analyzing Oscar: Deconstructing the Academy Awards
New: Podcasts and lesson plans on the filmmaking process
INTRODUCTION
More than ever, teachers are using film in the classroom. This web
site is designed to help educators better integrate film into
instruction and help their students learn the "languages of film."
KEY QUOTES
"If people aren't
taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as
illiterate as if they left college without being able to read or write?"
George Lucas, interview for
GLEF.org
"Of all art forms, film
is the one that gives the greatest illusion of authenticity...of
truth...A motion picture takes a viewer inside where real people are
supposedly doing real things...We assume there is a certain
verisimilitude, a certain authenticity, but there is always some degree
of distortion."
Annette Insdorf, film historian
(author of Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust) quoted in the
documentary "Imaginary Witness:
Hollywood and the Holocaust"
"Movies are a door to knowledge--about society, about prejudice, about
history, about art --and teachers are eager for someone to help them
make the link between education and film."
Margaret Bodde, The Story of Movies/The Film Foundation (Source)
Additional Resources
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Read my exclusive
interview with
Steve Werblun, the storyboard artist for the Walden Media production of "Because
of Winn-Dixie;" plus see some of his original storyboard drawings |
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Weekly Reader's WRITING magazine (February-March
2007) themed issue Reeling with Words:
Screenplays, home movies,
and film reviews--we show students what it takes to write for and about the
movies.
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HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD
(Jan. 2007)Can
you believe that the earliest movies cost only a
nickel and that the first movie stars were silent?
In the January 2007 issue, discover how the first,
soundless motion pictures developed into "talkies"
and then full-color films. Learn why the film
industry moved from the East Coast to a dry,
sparsely populated town in California, and discover
what light bulb inventor Thomas Edison had to do
with it. Learn how Hollywood remakes old classics,
works to preserve original films, and uses
computer-generated technology to thrill viewers
today. Meet the visionary men behind the earliest
studios and movies, like producer Samuel Goldwyn and
animator Walt Disney. Join COBBLESTONE ® as we
explore America's love affair with motion pictures
by looking back to when it all began.
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Media Literacy Film Resources:
Teacher resources for media literacy films to show in the
college classroom
Focus On Film: Learning It Through The Movies,
Middle Ground Journal, NMSA, October 2006
*LIGHTS, CAMERA, EDUCATION!,
AFI curriculum available via Discovery's UnitedStreaming
(link to
press release;
release; link to
curriculum)
Reading
Movies (profile of the Story of Movies Project)
MOVIES
AND VIDEOS MISUSED IN THE CLASSROOM
(June 2006)
link to full study
Viewing the Films: Not Whether or Not, but How?
http://www.hhsdrama.com/documents/OrganizingaFilmClass.pdf
Using Film to Increase Literacy Skills
English Journal, Vol. 93, No. 3, January 2004
(companion:
How to Organize a Film as a Literature
Class)
Using Film, Video, TV In The Classroom
http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-929/film.htm
Film and the Composition Classroom:
Using Visual Media to Motivate First-Year Writers
http://sites.unc.edu/daniel/131spring99/papers/Mazer.html
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