How one station broadcasts news from eight towns by using Super 8 film. (Author)

Presents reviews of 76 new short films chosen for their quality, impact, and teaching value in the classroom; films are arranged in thematic categories. (MAI)

Supplements the idea of the realistic spy story as reflector of modern problems with a theory of its meaning or a "metaphysics" of the genre. Available from: Thomas L. Erskine, Co-Editor; Literature/Film Quarterly, Salisbury State College, Salisbury, Maryland 21801, Subscription Rates: individuals, $6.00; students, $5.00; single copies, $2.00. (MH)

Offers information about aesthetic films, their study in class as an art form, and the procurement of such works from the Media Center for Children in New York. Compares film to literature and contrasts the language of film with verbal language. Lists some of the best films tested with children and film distributors. Outlines film discussion…

Provides a course survey of the structure, conditions, functions, and operations of the American film industry. (PD)

Describes prominent film archives in the U.S., including several university collections. (PD)

Explores the rhetorical factors which underlie this British film's extraordinary popularity with American audiences. Argues that the rhetorical force of the film comes from the struggle between moralism and materialism, two aspects of the American Dream, thus providing a uniquely powerful American experience. (PD)

Examines various formal stylistic features of cinema in the 1930's and the relationship of these features to the technological developments of the period. Available from: Film Quarterly, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA 94702. Subscription Rates: $6.00, per year; $10.80, two years; single copies, $1.50. (MH)

Available from: Film & History, The Historians Film Committee, c/o The History Faculty, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey 07102.

Available from: Film & History, The Historians Film Committee, c/o The History Faculty, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey 07102.

This paper reports on the "diversity curriculum infusion" course design process as applied within a Film/Video Directing class at the University of Missouri in Kansas City during the Spring 2006 semester. By custom, film directing has been grounded in aesthetic principles originating in Western European craft and art traditions. While…

Discusses cinematic allusion and examines the films of Peter Bogdanovich to illustrate some uses of the technique. (TO)