Argues for the validity and effectiveness of using film excerpts to teach high school English. Suggests various methods for using commercial films on VCRs to study themes, formal elements of literature, literary terms, and the aesthetic decisions behind film adaptations. (JG)

Discusses how film offers a vehicle for observation and imitation, providing writers with a more accurate image of how they perform. Refers to three films: "Before the First Word", "Telling an Old Story", and "Pieces of a Puzzle" that have become the basis for insightful and fruitful discussions about writing. (JK)

Suggests a number of helpful resources, including textbooks, published and unpublished screenplays, contemporary critical writing, screenplay competitions, contact with industry professionals, and software programs for the screenwriter. (PD)

Reviews science fiction films used in a science fiction class. Discusses feature films, short science fiction films, short story adaptations, original science fiction pieces and factual science films that enrich literature. (EL)

This syllabus, based on a genre approach to experimental works, focuses on exploring film both as a personal expression and as a medium, rather than as mass entertainment. (PD)

Three conceptual frameworks for examining the cognitive response to film are reviewed. It is suggested that a phenomenological rather than atomistic conception of the film-viewer interaction will be most useful for the generation of further studies in this area. (Author/RM)

Argues that film and literature courses must get beyond discussions of plot to explorations of narrative perspective and structure, communication techniques, and critical methodologies in order to give students an awareness of the inherent natures, limitations, and possibilities of film and literature. (DMM)

The American Film Genre Program helps students get into exploring the genre film as experience in examples of work that reflects the art of the film at a powerful and imagination-kindling level. (Author/RK)

Notes those films most frequently used in documentary film courses and suggests that some type of film study guide focusing on these specific films be developed. (MH)

Lists some of the more popular and creative resources for film study which are geared to the needs of secondary teachers. (RB)

Author discussed the ways in which Antonioni develops a symbology of his own that combines to make his metaphoric statement on the bed which modern people have to lie in, a wasteland which deteriorates all aspects of the human personality. (Author/RK)

Discusses how the film endings of Hemingway's works differ in both content and intent from the original publications. (TO)

Article tells how to make a slide/sound picture story that captivates the special atmosphere of a school that alumni like to see. (Author)

Discusses a unit on silent films based on an analysis of Charlie Chaplin. (MM)