The subjects of the three separate, but related essays in this dissertation are art in general, one particular art form, and one individual work of art. The first essay, a continuous piece of sustained abstraction, primarily concerns the field of aesthetics, while the second, more concrete essay is drawn from material conceived as a book on the…

This study explores the question: Is the response-centered approach to teaching literature suitable for secondary film education? The personal growth rationale and response-approach pedagogy, particularly as articulated in the past decade, are presented in detail. Following a survey of the history of American secondary film education, the film…

In order to test the hypothesis that Soviet revolutionary films influenced American film makers' attitudes concerning the importance of form and structure through editing, this dissertation explores the areas of affinity and contrast between the two national cinemas during the period when Soviet silent films were originally released in the United…

This study deals primarily with recent academically oriented critical material, but it also embraces the range of film criticism that has been written for the mass audience in newspapers and periodicals. The study considers eight types of critical approaches to analyzing film: the journalistic approach, which contains both a reportorial-review and…

This study explored foundational conceptions of knowledge currently influencing secondary cinematic arts education, their curricular and instructional expressions, and their relation to instructional methods practiced in this environment. "Congruence" was developed as a method for exploring the assumptions, dimensions, and relations outlined for…

This study provides English teachers who teach, or plan to teach, film courses, with an analysis of the unique structural elements of film, suggestions for the teaching of a high school elective course on film, and activities that teach visual literacy skills. The first part of this study analyzes and defines visual literacy. Chapters provide…

This dissertation consists of four studies which identify some areas of difference between viewers who use the film medium in a personally profitable manner and those who use it less well. In Study 1 a theoretical definition of "film analyticity" is developed. An analytical film viewer is defined as an individual who (1) values the film medium for…

This study identifies and describes the interest patterns of 218 fourth and fifth grade children in two schools in Baton Rouge, Louisiana--one black Title I school, one white suburban school--as they pertain to the content and technique of the short film, and to determine whether these interest were related to sex, or race-socioeconomic status.…

The purpose of this study was to discuss ideas on the nature of filmmaking, filmmakers, and viewers; provide a philosophy of teaching filmmaking for art education; survey the growth of filmmaking-in-school curriculums; show the development and operation of the National Endowment for the Arts and Office of Education Filmmakers-in-the-Schools…

The purposes of this study are to develop a method by which a symbolic mode in general and a particular mode, filmmaking, can be studied and to present a demonstration of this method and the results of this particular analysis. Eight groups of teenagers, males and females, were taught to make films using 16mm equipment. The students came from four…

Despite the powerful role that film can play in the classroom, many teachers are reluctant to use it. They are either afraid of the equipment and technical knowledge, or feel unprepared because they have never studied films or filmmaking themselves. This paper is directed toward the would-be film teacher. It offers guidelines, suggests activities,…

The history of multimedia and descriptions of various multimedia events from 1900 to 1972 are presented. The development of multimedia events is described for four eras and four main classifications of events: multiscreen presentations, electronic media and performers, environmental theater, and environments. Five appendixes include a discussion…