Reviews Bordwell, Staiger, and Thompson's history of Hollywood to 1960. Finds the book extremely strong, especially in its attempt to present a theoretical approach to film history in general and to the development of classical Hollywood conventions. (MS)

Describes several classroom exercises designed to make film grammar and narrative structure clear to the student. (RBW)

Examines pricing practices of major producers of educational materials: Weston Woods, Listening Library, Random House Educational Media, Live Oak Media, S&S Communications Group, Phoenix/BFA, Benchmark, and Churchill Films. Royalties, production and manufacturing costs, list prices, recoveries to producers, and marketing are noted. (EJS)

Authors describe how a four and one-half minute animated film, The Hare and the Tortoise, was made at the Educational Mass Media Centre, Ethiopia. (HB)

In an interview with the archivist of the Motion Picture Unit in the National Archives, holdings of various libraries are discussed, as are potential uses historians may find for film. (JB)

Examines four types of film directing and the programs available to students wishing to pursue careers as directors. The categories of directing are feature films, independent films, sponsored films, and commercials. Limitations of existing programs are outlined. (JMF)

Studies viewers' impressions of husbands and wives in four Ingmar Bergman films in terms of socio-intellectual status, dynamism, and aesthetic quality. The agreement of viewer ratings indicates that viewers reacted more in tune with the underlying symbolic significance of characters than did most critics. (JMF)

Describes a seminar which organized a series of student films by characterizing their surface themes and patterns of symbolic expression beneath their surface layers, using Jungian psychology. Implications of student films as overt and covert vehicles of self-expression are discussed. (JMF)

Calls for a more contextual understanding of film study, which would recognize that the discipline called "film studies" is above all a communicational system--an open system in continual and reciprocal communication with its environment or context. (JMF)

Discusses in depth the film "Cartas del parque" ("Letters from the Park"), the first of six films in the "Amores Dificiles" series. Notes that the film is pervaded by the traditional overdetermination of gender roles. Suggests that an intrusive and authoritative narrator makes of this both a "readerly" and a…

Most leadership theories assume that leadership is a quality of leaders (e.g., trait theory), or a response to environments (e.g., situational theory), or a combination of both (e.g., contingency theory). In all these approaches leadership is something knowable and definite. However, after years of research there is no agreed definition of what…

The author advocates the use of films to supplement textbook treatments of bank runs and panics in money and banking or general banking classes. Modern students, particularly those in developed countries, tend to be unfamiliar with potential fragilities of financial systems such as a lack of deposit insurance or other safety net mechanisms. Films…

This case study focuses on the impact of historical film on 20 high school students using document surveys, group, and personal interviews. The study examined the impact that two films had on students' historical understanding, the students' awareness of this impact, and their use of the tools of historical inquiry. The results indicated film…