Implementation of digital literacies in secondary literature study can result in increased textual engagement and explorations of identity. The author describes the results of practitioner research at a Midwestern U.S. high school in which senior AP students created short films as a way to analyze literature circle texts. The purpose of the study…

Political science faculty have access to a wealth of innovative pedagogies thanks to a comprehensive literature on teaching and learning in the discipline and related fields. Yet, from among the hundreds of documented possibilities, how does one go about deciding which to incorporate into a given course? Few articles have much to say in response…

In our essay we discuss Louise Rosenblatt's transactional theory of a reading event. Second, we summarize Carole Cox and Joyce Many who applied the transactional theory and designed a 1-5 point continuum to stories and films. Third, we summarize film theorists David Bordwell's constructivism; Richard Wollheim's central imagining and…

High school teacher John Golden provides a variety of literature, film scenes, and classroom activities to introduce literary, cinematic, and theatrical elements. He shows students how to move beyond basic comparisons as students learn to analyze the techniques and changes film directors choose when translating literature to the screen. (Contains…

In this article, the author describes Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities in Bogliasco, Italy, which offers a stately perch from which a few lucky scholars and artists can gaze at the Mediterranean and gather their thoughts making it so conducive to the study of arts and letters. The center provides scholars and artists midcareer and…

Describes the content of an introductory film course which examines the history of the film industry, literature and film, and film as film. (HOD)

Analyzes the three literary sources of Ingmar Bergman's film, "Through a Glass Darkly," in an attempt to account for some of the film's technical weaknesses and shed light on the film's interpretation. (TO)

Article developed from a talk presented to the Aspen Film Conference held at Snowmass-at-Aspen in July, 1968.

Designed to guide students through the process of writing a film script, this book is an analysis of eight classic screenplays and one novel written in cinematic style, which may serve as models for screenwriting. Each chapter in the book, except the last, is devoted to one script emphasizing a certain aspect of screenwriting. The focus is on how…

The social and personal importance of recordings to teenagers merits special consideration.

Argues that film and literature courses must get beyond discussions of plot to explorations of narrative perspective and structure, communication techniques, and critical methodologies in order to give students an awareness of the inherent natures, limitations, and possibilities of film and literature. (DMM)

Discusses how the film endings of Hemingway's works differ in both content and intent from the original publications. (TO)

Describes how short films can augment the young student's understanding of such literary concepts as point of view, plot, tone, characterization, setting, and author's intention; illustrated. (SW)

Discusses and attempts to define literature as an art comprised of more than one medium and film as a medium for more than one art. (TO)

Discusses the differences in the characterization of the hero between James Dickey's novel and screenplay, "Deliverance." (TO)