Assesses individuals' fear and enjoyment reactions to horror films, applying theories of cognition and affect that predict emotional responses to a stimulus on the basis of prior affect toward specific cues included in that stimulus. (MM)

The production activities of a video club for grade 5 students includes a daily news show and video documentaries. This program helps students to use their creative talents, gain interaction skills, and develop more positive attitudes toward learning. Equipment used for the project is described, and eight references are listed. (MES)

Recommends using movie clips to stimulate students' interest in reading a novel as well as to teach elements of fiction such as plot, character, setting, symbol, irony, and theme. Describes each clip and provides study questions. Includes a listing of movies made from books. (NH)

Describes the use of popular science fiction films in high school and college science courses. Holds that young persons' fascination with science fiction can serve as a takeoff point for serious discussion of principles of physics and biology, in particular. (GC)

Investigates the perceptual basis of metaphor by asking 5-, 7-, and 10-year-old children and adults to pair and discuss films of natural objects, both stationary and moving. Concludes that motion information makes metaphoric similarity relatively easy to perceive and influences the form of descriptive metaphors. (Author/CB)

As alternatives to the well-known Kodak Kodalith film for making presentation slides, suggests using Kodak Technical Pan Film, 2415 and Kodak Precision Fine Film LPD4. Although less known, both films are capable of making excellent quality slides with minimum effort and, for the occasional user, offer advantages over the Kodalith-Diazochrome…

Presents three exercises that encourage active participation in cultural anthropology classes: (1) use of a puzzle to demonstrate focal issues about culture; (2) discussion of a specific piece of fieldwork to demonstrate the relationship among fieldwork, ethics, and cultural relativity; and (3) use of study questions in ethnographic films to allow…

Reviews a six-part series (available as 16mm film or videocassettes) in which actors portray scientists lecturing on various topics/issues. Scientists portrayed include Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, William Harvey, Gregor Mendel, William Beaumont, and Hans Spemann. Also reviews a film detailing construction of the Multiple Mirror Telescope on…

"Learning" magazine offers its selection of the best educational films and filmstrips for 1984. Subject matter covers a variety of topics with exerpts from judges' comments included. Distributors' names and addresses follow each selection. (DF)

Author focused on the current and recurrent debate regarding the relationship of cinema to literature with the intent of clearing the air of useless distinctions. He suggested that film people make peace with literature people for both theoretical and practical reasons. (Author/RK)

Concludes that even though Ozu's films are steeped with Japanese tradition and values, they nevertheless hold a perenially contemporary and universal message for the world. (Author/AM)

New media, i.e., motion pictures developed for educational purposes and educational television, are basic in that they so dominate the experiences of the child. Teachers must devise strategies for using the moving image as an active agent in learning and for encouraging the child to be an active agent in seeing. (Author/RK)

Cites research which indicates that newspapers have a relatively strong impact on fertility rates and that television, radio and cinema have a significant impact on their target population when they are used specifically as information or education sources. (Available from the Journal of Applied Communications Research, Ed., Drawer NJ, Mississippi…

Reviews the state of film scholarships over the last decade focusing attention on the dangers of contemporary influences from music and literary theory, linguistics and structuralism on film studies. (MH)

The new media learning center has a flexible system that permits students to advance at their own paces, while at the same time lending itself to more formal, teacher-directed instruction. (Author/MLF)