FILM STUDY GUIDE FOR TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
SEEING THE FILM THROUGH THE LENS OF MEDIA LITERACY
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Recommended Resources:
Study Guide (with student questions for consideration)
To
Kill a Mockingbird: Then and now.
English Journal, April 1997
Reel
Justice: The Courtroom Goes To The Movies
Hollywood and race: To Kill A Mockingbird, in Cinema & Fiction: New
Modes of Adapting,
1950-1990,
edited by John Orr and Colin Nicholson, Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1992
(also contained in the volume Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: To
Kill A Mockingbird, Updated Edition)
Quoting Films In English Class, by Richard H. Fehlman, English Journal,
September 1987
Turner Classic Movies: To
Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird, Threatening Boundaries by Claudia Durst Johnson
Understanding To Kill A Mockingbird, A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources
and Historic Documents,
by Claudia Durst Johnson
To Kill A Mockingbird, 25th Anniversary Brochure & Study Guide, Studies
in the Mass Media,
reprint of the March 1963, Volume III, No. 6, ©The
National Council of Teachers of English
The following resources are available for purchase
from the Center for Media Literacy:
How
to Read A Film
Media
Literacy: Thinking Critically About Movies
Reading
In the Dark
Reading
the Movies
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Conversations: Reading Films With Young Adults
Seeing
And Believing: How to Teach Media Literacy In the English Classroom
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©2003 Frank W. Baker Page updated: 10/25/2007