Although usually considered the "master of suspense," Alfred Hitchcock relished working humor into his films, frequently juxtaposing it against scenes of utter gruesomeness. This placement of comic elements--comic relief--in an otherwise serious murder mystery or suspense thriller became a Hitchcock trademark early in his career.…

Film historians have tended to overlook the industrial film even though it has been widely used as a sales tool since early in this century. The Caterpillar Tractor Company was one of the first to adopt this medium as a means of demonstrating what its machines could do in a variety of situations. While other types of films have been made by…

A summary of uses of films with children. (CH)

Comedy feature films are especially important resources for film teachers. (JH)

Some first considerations in formulating film study curricula. (CH)

Ideas for teaching film from a British educator. (CH)

Graphic display and explanation of ideas for teaching film. (CH)

A structuralist-semiotic study of film theory. (CH)

A theoretical and historical account of the main preoccupations of makers of abstract films is presented in this book. The book's scope includes discussion of nonrepresentational forms as well as examination of experiments in the manipulation of time in films. The ten chapters discuss the following topics: art and cinematography, the first…

This journal offers a selection from papers presented at two scholarly meetings on research on film conducted at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies. Separate papers deal with the following topics: film and ideology; the filmic apparatus; the inadequacies of current conceptions of film historiography; nonlinguistic extensions of film and…

Describes a method for introducing students to the study of film as a means of improving such language skills as reading and writing. (RB)

Reviewing results of experiments in which sequence of motion picture shots was varied, the author concludes that the meaning of individual shots varies with changes in order and context. (Editor)