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BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTRODUCTION
Recommended Links
The
Importance of Screen Education
http://www.bmm.qut.edu.au/commentary.php?Commentary_ID=59
How Filmmaking Develops Higher Order Thinking Skills
http://www.thedirectorintheclassroom.com/pdf/TDICChapter3.pdf
Recommended Articles
The World In A Fresh Light: To Kill A Mockingbird
(Film as Text)
Australian Screen Education, Issue #35, Winter 2004
Film Literacy, Clearing House, Sep/Oct98, Vol. 72,
Issue 1
1 The third
eye: critical literacy and higher order thinking skills are
improved through a film studies class; Journal of
Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Nov 2002 v46 i3 p220(11)
2 Introduction to, Good Looking: Film Studies, Short
Films and Filmmaking, edited by David A. Sohn, Copyright
1976
3 The Novel/Film relationship, page 6 (A Novel Look At Film: Of
Mice & Men)
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/publishingservices/PDF/OfMiceandMen.pdf
4 Viewing & Representing
http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/ks4/cur/ela/docs/litlearn3-5to8.html
FRAMEWORK
FOR ANALYZING FILM
1 (suggested in "The Third Eye:
Critical Literacy and Higher Order Thinking Skills Are Improved
Through a Film Studies Class," Ali Nihat Eken,
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Nov. 2002, v.46, i3,
p220 )
2 suggested in INTRODUCTION at http://www.filmeducation.org/secondary/StudyGuides/classicbooks.pdf
(this approach follows the UK recommendations for media
studies)
for more about the Key Concepts of Film Studies, this site is
highly recommended: http://www.mediaknowall.com/alevelkeycon.html
3 (adapted from Reel
Conversations: Reading Films with Young Adults by Teasley
and Wilder, Heinemann, 1997, Chapter 2.)
SOURCE: http://sumnet.summit.winston-salem.nc.us/classrooms/film_page.html
Recommended Reading
Using Film to Increase Literacy Skills, English Journal, Vol.
93. NO. 3.
January 2004
How to Organize a Film As Literature Class
http://www.englishjournal.colostate.edu/images/filmclass.pdf
MEDIA
LITERACY
More about core concepts here:
Media Literacy Core Concepts
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/
media_literacy/key_concept.cfm
Center for Media Literacy's MediaLit Kit
http://www.medialit.org/bp_mlk.html
What is media literacy?
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/teachers/
media_literacy/what_is_media_literacy.cfm
Other resources:
Center for Media Literacy http://www.medialit.org
Media Literacy Clearinghouse http://www.med.sc.edu/medialit
1 National Council for
Teachers of English, Commission on Media, Carole Cox, 1994, p.13
2 Developed by The Center
for Media Literacy, www.medialit.org
USING
To
Kill A Mockingbird ON
DVD
Recommended
articles
Using DVD In the Classroom (Adobe
Acrobat required)
DVD: Using Your Imagination in the
Classroom
http://www.socialstudies.com/c/@PAA1S5GH732OA/Pages/whydvd.html
DVD: Frequently Asked
Questions and Answers
http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html
STANDARDS
CORRELATION
National
Standards for the English Language Arts
http://www.ncte.org/standards/standards.shtml
Mid-Continent
Research For Education & Learning (McREL)
National Standards
http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/
Recommended
Links/Resources
Viewing
the Films: Not Whether or Not, but How?
http://www.ncte.org/about/over/inbox/ideas/109818.htm
Using Film to Increase
Literacy Skills
English Journal, Vol. 93, No. 3, January 2004
Using Film, Video, TV In The Classroom
http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/digests/d36.html
Film and the Composition Classroom: Using Visual Media to
Motivate First-Year Writers
http://sites.unc.edu/daniel/131spring99/papers/Mazer.html
LANGUAGE
OF FILM
Language of
Film: To Kill A Mockingbird: pages 7 -11
http://www.filmeducation.org/printpacks/secdocs/classics.pdf
Suggested Links:
Film
Language (UK produced resource)
Other websites on understanding
films and film language
Looking
Closely at the Film, by William Costanzo
Recommended books about
motion pictures/films
Recommended Texts:
Reading
Films Key Concepts for Analysing Film and Television (BFI)
How
to Read A Film
1
Visual
Messages: Integrating Imagery Into Instruction,
Movies as Mentors, pg 205
2 Saturday Review, January 12,1963
3
Reading
Films:
Key Concepts for Analysing Film & Television (BFI)
pg.12
SYMBOLISM
1 Reading
in The Dark-Using Film As A Tool In The English Classroom,
pp. 82
2 Media
Literacy (2nd Ed.) , pp. 42
3 To
Kill A Mockingbird:
Then & Now, A 35th Anniversary Celebration:
Teacher Study Guide: Looking Closely At The Film, written by
William Costanzo,
Professor of English and Film, Westchester Community College
LIGHTING
Recommended links
Lighting
As Storytelling
(full chapter from the text: Cinematography: Theory Into
Practice)
Film
Language: Use of Lighting
Recommended book
Painting
With Light by John Alton
Recommended VHS/DVD
Visions
of Light: The Art of Cinematography
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1
Approaches
to Media Literacy: A Handbook,
Chapter 5, Analysis of Production Elements, pp 226-227
2
Reading
Films: Key Concepts for Analysing Film & Television (BFI)
pg.12
3 The New Literacy, The Language of Film and Television,
Chapter One pg. 7
CAMERA
SHOTS
Recommended Links
Film
Language: Use of the Camera
Making Movies Make Sense: Framing
1 "Film, An
Introduction" William H. Phillips, Part One, The
Expressiveness of Film Techniques, pg.8
2 Media Analysis Techniques (2nd Ed.)
Arthur Asa Berger
3 Grammar Of
Television from Berger found at http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/faculty/yildizm/SP/
also see How Media Products Make Meaning: http://www.uiowa.edu/~centeach/resources/ideas/media.glossary.pdf
EDITING
1 Editing for Interpretation, Chapter 9 pg. 195,
The Art of Technique, An
Aesthetic Approach to Film and Video Production
2 The Hollywood Reporter, review, December 11,
1962
3 Film Editing: Manipulating Time and Space,
Activity Three: Creating Meaning,
Teacher's Resource Guide, AMPAS/Youth Media International, 2002
4 cut and dissolve: definitions from A Glossary of Film Terms
http://homepage.newschool.edu/~schlemoj/film_courses/glossary_of_film_terms/glossary.html
5 http://course1.winona.msus.edu/pjohnson/h140/studentsf01/tokillamockingbird/
Recommended Links
Film Analysis (see editing)
http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/
Film Language: Use of Editing http://www.filmeducation.org/secondary/concept/filmlang/docs/lang7.html
Putting the Pieces Together: What Does It Mean to Edit a Movie? http://scenariosusa.org/educators/makingmovies/ch5.pdf
Film Editing Glossary http://www.learner.org/exhibits/cinema/editing2.html
Film/Editing Terms http://www.zerocut.com/tech/film_terms.html
A Glossary of Film Terms
http://homepage.newschool.edu/~schlemoj/film_courses/glossary_of_film_terms/glossary.html
Recommended Readings
Film Editing: A Hidden Art? http://imv.au.dk/publikationer/pov/Issue_06/section_1/artc2A.html
Film editing (history) http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/ent/A0859784.html
Film Editing http://www.filmmakers.com/features/editing/
Introduction to Film Editing (Lesson Plan) http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/lessons/editing/b.html
Recommended Texts
Cinema Editor Magazine http://www.ace-filmeditors.org/news.htm
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film,
Michael Onda
Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive, Valerie Orpen
Film Art: An Introduction, David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson
First Cut: Conversations with Film Editors, Gabriella Oldham
In The Blink of an Eye, Walter Murch, Francis Ford Coppola
Key Concepts in Cinema Studies, Susan Hayward
The Technique of Film Editing, Karel Reisz, Gavin Millar
When the Shooting Stops, The Cutting Begins: A Film Editor's
Story
Ralph Rosenblum and Robert Karen
MUSIC
http://www.elmerbernstein.com/
Listen to selections from the film soundtrack here:
http://www.jefflangonline.com/peck/home/index.htm
Recommended Links
Film Score magazine www.filmscoremonthly.com
Film Music Bibliography www.filmsound.org/filmmusic/filmmusic-books.htm
Introduction to Film Sound www.filmsound.org/marshall/index.htm
1
Simon Frith quoted in Film Languages; Media Texts: Authors
and Readers
2 The 101
Best Movies You've Ever Heard: The Film Score at 70, FILM
COMMENT, Nov/Dec. 2003, pg.40
3 as quoted in the text Creative
Filmmaking from the Inside Out: Five Keys to The Art of Making
Inspired Movies and Television, page 163
4 http://www.musicfromthemovies.com/pages/reviews/to_kill_a.html
5
“Fearful Symmetry: The
Making of To Kill A Mockingbird”
6 The
Guardian interview, October 9, 2002
SOUND
EFFECTS
Recommended Websites
Film Language Sound http://www.filmeducation.org/secondary/concept/filmlang/docs/lang6.html
Exploring Language Sound
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/resources/exp_lang/sound.html
Film & Sound Links http://www.filmsound.org/links.htm
The Art of Foley http://www.marblehead.net/foley/
Motion Picture Sound Editors http://www.mpse.org/home.html
SCREENWRITING
1
Horton
Foote and the Theatre of Intimacy, pp. 45-46
2 “Fearful
Symmetry: The Making of To Kill A Mockingbird”
3 Quoting
Films in English Class, Richard Fehlman, English Journal
Recommended Link
Scriptwriting http://scenariosusa.org/educators/makingmovies/ch2.pdf
Recommended Text
Horton Foote : A Literary Biography (Univ of Texas Press)
SCREENPLAY
Recommended Website
Other pages from the screenplay can be found here
Recommended Texts
To
Kill A Mockingbird screenplay
To
Kill A Mockingbird screenplay and related readings
SETTING
& ART DIRECTION
Recommended
Websites/Readings
To Kill A Mockingbird: A historical perspective
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/mock/intro.html
To Kill A Mockingbird: Parallels to Jim Crow America
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/resources/lessonplans/amlit_lp_lee1.htm
Art Production http://scenariosusa.org/educators/makingmovies/ch4.pdf
Art Directors Guild http://www.artdirectors.org/
Art Direction: The Visual Language of
Film The World of
http://www.oscars.org/teachersguide/artdirection/pdf/artdirection.pdf
The World of Hollywood Art Design: An Interview with
Henry Bumstead
Cineaste magazine, Summer 2001
Recommended Texts
Henry Bumstead and the World of Hollywood Art
Direction
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/horhen.html
What An Art Director Does: An Introduction To Motion
Picture Production Design
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1879505185/qid=1064501470/sr=11-
1/ref=sr_11_1/102-4437040-1300949
Art Direction For Film
& Video (2nd Ed)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0240803388/ref=pd_sim_books
_2/102-4437040-1300949?v=glance&s=books
By Design: Interviews with Film
Production Designers
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0275940314/ref=pd_sim_books
_5/102-4437040-1300949?v=glance&s=books
1 (US Postal Service document commemorating,
American Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes, February 2003)
2 Henry Bumstead and the World of Hollywood Art Direction, pg. 7
3 transcript of TCM interview with Bumstead, from the
website
4 Universal Picture Showman's Manual, pg 6
5 http://course1.winona.msus.edu/pjohnson/h140/studentsf01/tokillamockingbird/
6 Trial brief, from Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes to the Movies,
pg.142
7
“A Visit to the
Imaginary Landscape of Harrison
Texas: Sketching the Film Career of
Horton Foote”
in Literature Film Quarterly, Vol.17, No. 1 1989 )
Additional note: According to the text Box Office Champs,
TKAM was #8 of the top grossing films of 1963, earning $7.5 million.
SCENE
ANALYSIS
1
http://course1.winona.msus.edu/pjohnson/h140/studentsf01/tokillamockingbird
MOVIE
REVIEW
REVIEWS
Hollywood Reporter Original
Review (Dec. 11, 1962)
Variety's Original
Review
Collection of Original
Reviews
Film Quarterly's Review
(2002)
Review
Marking DVD Release (1998)
Film Site's Review
webpage
Film Review by James
Berardinelli
Other TKAM movie reviews:
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?%22to+kill+a+mockingbird%22
Lesson Plans:
Writing A Film Review
http://www.trinityhigh.com/curric/english/assignmt/filmrevw.htm
What's A Good Movie Review?
http://www.highschooljournalism.org/teachers/
LessonPlan_Display.cfm?Type=L&LessonplanId=299&AuthorId=173
1 VARIETY
GLOSSARY
Recommended websites
Glossary http://scenariosusa.org/educators/makingmovies/glossary.pdf
Exploring Language Composition
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/resources/exp_lang/composition.html
for a good explanation of many film production terms
Moving Images In The Classroom (bfi)
http://www.bfi.org.uk/education/resources/teaching/secondary/miic/
MOVIE
MARKETING
Resources:
The Movie
Marketing Blog
A
Case Study: Film Marketing & Judge Dredd
(17 page guide produced by BFI)
Marketing
(another BFI produced guide)
Teaching
Trailers (filmeducation.org)
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