Examines the way cinema and television studies are taught in South African universities, especially at Pretoria Technikon Film School and Rhodes University. (PD)

Tips on creating a course in film making, one that will help students master basic English skills. (RL)

Suggests ways to get students interested in talking seriously about comedy. (RL)

Case study of Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke's classic documentary, "The City," a work of cinematic art and a record of the problems confronting urban planners. Discusses how the film builds a rhythmic pattern through dramatic structure, image content and composition, editing, music, and narration to enhance its rhetorical appeal. (JMF)

Discusses the advantages of using short films in writing classes. Shows how contrastive and comparative uses of the media encourage complex treatments of the cyclical stages of writing. Offers an example of how film in the classroom can be used, with a heuristic for directing stages of composing. (RL)

Discusses Frederick Wiseman's film "High School" in terms of the audience's perspective of the following themes: power, authority, identity, alienation, sexuality, and boredom. Illustrates how these themes relate to each other to form a structure that invites rhetorical response. (JMF)

Examines the phenomenon of the cult film and the characteristics of the audiences of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show." Suggests that the preparation, waiting, and finally the active participation in the viewing of the film itself appear to be part of a group ritual which characterizes the cult film as an event. (JMF)

Shows how English teachers can use film to upgrade the literary consciousness of theatre goer and reader alike. (RL)

Describes a selection of audiovisual aerospace materials available from government and non-government sources. (MLH)

Founded as a media training project in 1969, Appalshop (Whitesburg, Kentucky) has become a center that produces award-winning films and videos; provides summer internships for high school students; maintains a traveling theater company; publishes musical recordings; operates a community radio station; and presents a variety of workshops,…

Provides background information on the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service Asylum office. Uses the perspective of two movie producers as they filmed a documentary film, "Well-founded Fear", about asylum and refugee protection. Includes information on how to order a classroom aid and the film. (CMK)

Demonstrates the theoretical relevance of developing critical pedagogical practices in which issues of representation and democratic transformation mutually inform each other. Engages a popular Hollywood film, "Baby Boy," in order to demonstrate how this film might be used as both a social transcript and a form of public pedagogy. (SG)

States that when analyzing film and television, traditional methods utilized in historical analysis for formats, other than visual media, can be implemented. Outlines an approach that can be used when examining film and television and addresses the importance of studying film and television in history. (CMK)