This paper describes a curricular project in which a network of media educators, in making a case for the educational and social values of an interactive documentary, integrated it in a media degree program to encourage activism in students and promote civic engagement. The project provides valid and important results in an immediate sense, while…

The arts-based educational research project "Culture Shack" ran from 2011 to 2012 in Melbourne, Australia, in collaboration with artists and scholars from the United States and Canada. This study sought to build arts-based pathways for migrant and refugee-background students through community-located arts workshops, and document them…

This article details the work of third grade teacher, co-author Kim Heckart, as she engaged her students in making historical documentaries: a project that succeeded in reaching all of her third-grade students. For the last five years, Kim has required students to make historical documentaries. As her students produced these works, Kim conversed…

Puts film teaching and filmmaking in Canada into colonial context as an endeavor dominated by the United States. Discusses the colonial context; the innovation of U.S. imperialism; feature film exhibition, distribution, and production; studying filmmaking in Canada; and the future of filmmaking in Canada. (SR)

Various aspects of the role of the state in fostering creative art and cinematography are discussed in the two reports presented in this volume. In "The Role of the Market in the Relation Between the State and Cinematographic Creation" Jean Lescure emphasizes that this relationship should be viewed as one of complicity rather than…

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