This book illustrates the contribution of set design as a dramatic element and the decisive role it plays in the creation of ambience in a film. The evolution of film sets is traced in relation to film as a developing art form. The first section, which considers film perspective and the evolution of the set, discusses painted sets in the French…

Discusses and attempts to define literature as an art comprised of more than one medium and film as a medium for more than one art. (TO)

Discusses the differences in the characterization of the hero between James Dickey's novel and screenplay, "Deliverance." (TO)

Criteria for evaluating a film are provided with guidelines on how to use films. A list of 47 films is given. (MS)

Article gives a broad overview of the development of the National Film Board of Canada as a production and distribution agency. (Author/HB)

Presents 25 underground films with annotations. They are now available to film societies and universities. (RB)

Examines Walt Disney's formula for reducing children's literature to mass entertainment, as well as the liberties he took in interpreting the literature on which he based his animated films. (HTH)

Sketches the nature of early theater, vaudeville, and film competition. Focuses on one tool of competitive strategy--protection by copyright. (JMF)

Discusses the film industry's conversion to color cinematography in the period between the 1920s and 1960s. Cites economic considerations, technological modifications, and aesthetic preferences by audiences as factors in this development. (JMF)

Examines the importance of "Fassbinder," the historical being, to understand "the Fassbinder film." Argues that the "Fassbinder legend" is the result of a number of competing and often contradictory discourses that evolved out of state-regulated capitalism and culture in West Germany, not exclusively the product of…

Uses a case study of V. Pudovkin's film, "Return of Vasilii Bortnikov" (1953), to (1) address the possible influence of Hollywood-style continuity on the basic film technique of Soviet Socialist Realism; and (2) account for how the American model may have been modified as it was adapted to the Soviet situation. (PA)

This book is the text of an interview with the French film-maker, Jean Cocteau. It is the corrected edition, with a new introduction by George Amberg, of the English translation of the early 1950 conversation in French. Cocteau discusses the aesthetics, creative aspects, and production processes of his own films and films in general. His approach…

Studied whether or not viewing different versions of a silent, single concept film would affect the responses of elementary school children to tests related to the film. No significant correlations were found between pretest and posttest scores and 19 independent variables related to the children. (MLH)

A SERIES OF FILMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCED ON AUDIOLINGUAL TECHNIQUES FOR TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE. THIS MANUAL, WHICH DISCUSSES THE FILM ON FRENCH, HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO PROVOKE DISCUSSION, INTERPRETATION, CRITICISM, AND PROVIDE A FULL UNDERSTANDING OF THE TECHNIQUES PORTRAYED ON THE SCREEN AND OF THE LEARNING PROCESS AS A WHOLE. THE ORGANIZATION OF…