The question of aesthetic value remains a source of tension within diverse film education environments. While film-makers and audiences have visceral experiences of the value of cinema, these experiences are troubled by a contemporary film studies that tends to adopt a more relativist approach, suggesting that the experience of value is reflective…

Considers the study of film in the secondary curriculum. Discusses film selection and value: which movies are studied and what kind of notion of cultural value is taught. Notes how educators study film: what new kinds of visual literacy comes into play, how these are taught, what resources are needed, and what pedagogic traditions provide useful…

Describes a course set up for Year 11 students using digital editing equipment to examine the audiovisual fabric of films of their choice. Investigates how the advent of digital technologies enables new kinds of reading of visual texts as well as new kinds of textual production. (NH)