Analyzes "The Italian" (1915), an early "immigrant" film, examining its problematic relation to questions of working-class and middle-class audience composition. Shows how this film reveals that the creation of narratives suitable for diverse audiences requires continuous readjustment of an adequate mode of address. (MM)

Argues that a study of adaptation affects the view of Douglas Sirk as a creator of social critique. Proposes interventions into adaptation studies and critical response to Sirk by attending to multiple activations of "All That Heaven Allows." Demonstrates the importance of the archaeology of film studies criticism to an understanding of…

Explains the concepts of spectator positioning, supplement (as defined by Jacques Derrida), and plenitude in relation to the study of woman's films, in general, and the film "Committed" (1984), in particular. Considers how the film's indirect mode of public address disturbs conventional gender alignments and the distinction between…

Discusses the 1990 Canadian film, "Strangers in Good Company," which is semidocumentary and semifiction. Discusses the creation of the movie, the genres it moves between, and how the personal becomes political. (SR)

Suggests language arts instructors use film adaptations as well as novels to teach literature. (PRA)

Presents a structure for a course that highlights the best cinemas of Eastern European countries, in order to acquaint students with cinematic traditions of the region. Discusses course activities, coursework and evaluation, and resources. Advocates structuring the course around the film of experience of Eastern Europe, and presents and discusses…

Argues English teachers should stop treating film as a back-up activity and instead embrace it as a visual reinforcement of the curriculum. Describes how film can be used to teach literary terms such as protagonist, antagonist, conflict, setting, and characterization; to introduce material; and to introduce students to authors they may not…

Offers brief descriptions from seven English teachers of how and for what purpose they have used an unusual film in their English classroom. (SR)

Examines the current practices of film and video preservation in libraries and examines barriers that have hindered the development of full-fledged preservation programs for them. Topics include advances in education and training; preservation paradigms; and mechanics of film production that affect preservation. (Author/LRW)

This compendium provides an alphabetical, dated list of film titles in their first known version, with subsequent remakes. It gives the source of each film (as play, book, opera, legend, etc.); and for each film, the name of the releasing company. Film series with a continuing character or characters are listed in the appendix. (GO)

The techniques and forms of the film are particularly appropriate to the way people are today, to the way they look at life, and to what they see, hear, feel, and know when they look at themselves and at life around them. The structures of cinematic form are thus particularly appropriate to the structures of feeling in their lives. The major…

In an allegedly secular age, contemporary film art suggests that modern man still responds to classical spiritual symbols that speak to a deeply felt religious need. (RM)