A course studying narrative works from eight major French novelists, and the film adaptions of these works are described. Course discussions are directed toward a deeper understanding of the novel and a comparison of the structures, techniques, and limits of the two genres. Journal availability: Literature/Film Quarterly, Salisbury State College,…

Discusses the instructional strategies used in a course on television as a popular art form, in which students use their regular television viewing to develop a critical awareness, learning tools and techniques for analyzing dramatic form and content. (RT)

Popular films can be used successfully in a wide range of language, content, and culture classes. Creating support materials in order to use a movie in such a class is an enormous task, but with careful planning it can be broken into four manageable components: contemplation, selection, segmentation, and construction. This brief paper provides a…

Current teaching and thinking about theatre performances tend to ignore kinesics. Kinesics study answers the need for consideration of analogical thinking and nonverbal communication distinctive to theatrical performance. (CH)

Because of aesthetic and technical demands, the industrial arts department is often the natural home for teaching film-making and film-study; a wide variety of resources are available to help the industrial arts teacher prepare himself well to be on the leading edge of the fastest-spreading curricular change. (AJ)

Illustrated. (RD)

A paper presented at annual convention of Canadian Council of Teachers of English (3rd, Winnipeg, Manitoba, August 1970). (Editor/RD)

Reports on the visit of five American filmmakers to the People's Republic of China in 1979. Includes their observations of film and television facilities and reviews their meetings with actors, writers, directors, producers, archivists, historians, teachers, technicians, and other film workers and students. (JMF)

Surveys the structure of different types of short films. Analyzes the short film as a rhetorical entity and considers production techniques and patterns of distribution. (PD)

Describes a number of nonnarrative films and suggests ways to use them to integrate media into subject areas, to teach production techniques, to critique films and other visual productions, and to develop good visual taste. (DD)

Outlines a concentrated in-service visual training program which incorporates (1) perceptual effects of visual stimuli, (2) synthetic and natural stimuli, (3) non-verbal stimuli, (4) pictorial communication, (5) visual persuasion, and (6) creative visualization. (Author/CMV)

Presents an annotated list of recent scholarly and general reference books as compiled by Columbia University libraries. Subject categories include religion, literature, women's studies, film studies, art and architecture, political science, history and area studies, technology, and new editions and supplements. (LRW)

An approach that introduces a Quebec film into a college-level course for advanced students of French is described. The technique addresses three aspects of the film: organization; the significance of certain film-making processes; and cultural and social aspects of the film as they relate to Quebecoise culture. (MSE)