Dealing with both documentary and feature films, this book is a guide to using particular tools and procedures in developing ideas and concepts for writing film scripts. Part one deals with the factual, or documentary, film and discusses the proposal outline, film treatment, sequence outline, shooting script, and narration writing. Part two…

In this booklet, the author discusses the ways in which film may be used to extend and enrich the study of literature and explores the rhetoric of film--how it uses visual symbols, similes, and other metaphors to give depth to its content, and how it can broaden characterization and emphasize the symbolic and aesthetic highlights of setting in…

Examines a film entitled "Whose Choice?" which chronicles the struggle to protect and extend existing abortion rights through the campaigns set in motion by the James White Abortion (Amendment) Bill (1975). (MH)

Examines an alternative cinematic treatment of rape where the viewer is involved in a first person encounter with rape and betrayal of an intellectual and emotional nature rather than the more traditional physical nature. (MH)

Using Burkean analysis, this essay shows how films about haunted houses can serve as symbolic equipment to help audiences cope with real life problems. (PD)

Discusses the issues of finding a current film acceptable to local standards and justifying it as literature. Gives teaching suggestions for dealing with the setting, characters, themes, ending scenes, and visual poetry using the films "Places in the Heart" and "To Kill a Mockingbird." (EL)

Lists 385 theses and dissertations on the subject of film, most filed between 1979 and 1983. Includes author, title, university, and date. (PD)

Using films, readings, and textual and intertextual analysis, the course covers the cinema of India, Egypt, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Cuba, and Senegal. (PD)

Article provided an analysis of the films of Stanley Kubrick, credits for the film, Dr. Strangelove, a sequence outline of Dr. Strangelove and study questions relating to the film. It further made suggestions for additional reading. (RK)

A social and historical survey of the themes and economic and political factors involved in primarily Italian neorealist films. (CH)

Practical tips on how to edit locally produced classroom films. (HB)

First part of a continuing series. (DS)

Discusses use of films and film-making in secondary school English classes, pointing out the value of film study in literature and drama appreciation, and stating that film study is now an established teaching method growing in popularity. (JB)