Discusses how Krzysztof Kieslowski's film "Bleu" (1993), with its varied representation and thematization, offered a rewarding teaching experience that led somewhere unexpected and taught both the teacher and the students something about teaching. (Author/VWL)

Explains how the news story surrounding the Watergate events led not only to the resignation of President Nixon but also to one of journalism's greatest triumphs. Presents a Watergate timeline with 25 events. Gives three exercises to accompany the study of the journalism side of the Watergate events and to compare the movie, "All The…

Discusses teaching students literary appreciation and how to teach the appreciation of other media. Suggests comparing a book and video version of the same story and includes a literary review unit guide for middle school or junior high school students, as well as a sample lesson on comparing stories in two mediums. (LRW)

Encourages modification of teaching strategies to facilitate academic achievement among students from diverse groups. Describes how the author collaborated with professionals from the Folger Library's Teaching Shakespeare Institute to develop a better way to teach Shakespeare to her predominantly African-American students. Describes how her…

The participation of gifted elementary students in a student-produced video newsmagazine is discussed, along with steps for developing a news program, the benefits of developing technology skills in students, and the enhancement of oral communication skills and teamwork skills. A sample story board is provided. (Contains references.) (CR)

Examines the debate over the text or media that best enable second-year learners of German to increase their active vocabulary. Suggests the novel "Der Richter und sein Henker" can be enriched by the film adaptation. Classroom tested activities incorporate care fully-sequenced visuals and culminate in analysis of both the book and the film. Sample…

Details a twelfth grade English class which looked at literature, films, and their connections. Notes how the class eventually broke down the distinction between serious texts available to study in school and the popular texts found outside of school. Concludes that this process of reading and remembering a group of heterogeneous texts provides a…

Focuses on the career of Ken Burns, creator of historical documentaries for television and a popular historian. Examines his technique in creating documentaries, such as his use of style and the incorporation of biography. Discusses the differences between professional and popular history. (CMK)

Suggests that one way to provide cultural contexts for language learning is by using feature films for instructional purposes. Highlights the benefits of feature films, discusses the selection of films, and describes a process for using feature films in the language classroom. (Author/VWL)

Explores how motion pictures, television, and computers manipulate and rearrange the content and processes of communicated experience, thereby shaping how the audience perceives and interprets the physical and social reality depicted. Suggests that these media are fourth removed from reality (behind the Platonic Ideal, the actual, and art and…

Studies the effects of preexposure briefings upon male undergraduate communication students viewing films portraying violence against women. Concludes that viewings preceded by antirape messages and by the writing of antirape papers by the students themselves made students more likely to sympathize with female victims of violence. (SG)

Primary school children, after viewing a silent film, were asked to narrate a segment of the film and recount its events both as a news story and as an embellished story. The results indicate that primary school children have only nascent ability to apply genre knowledge to school language tasks. (55 references) (Author/JL)

Discusses how to incorporate videotaped productions of Shakespeare's plays into the English classroom. Describes three specific ways of using video to complement the literary text. (MM)

Offers six predictions on the interrelated development of film technology and film study in the teaching of English. Sees the instructional centrality of the video cassette recorder in the near future, progressing to microcomputers, laser disks, and hybrid spoken-written-graphic text. (MM)

Examines responses to graphic horror films based on gender and personality variables. Results indicate that responses to horror movies are largely determined by gender-specific rules for social conduct. (MW)