Reports on an interview with a distinguished filmmaker and university teacher. Summarizes VanDerBeek's teaching methods and his ideas on the ideal visual arts program, the difficulties of balancing a teaching and professional career, and student attitudes. (PD)

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)

Examines Chaplin's movement from silent films to sound films and his reluctant use of the spoken word and inclination to link human speech to basically sterile functions. (JMF)

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,…