[10.1] Teaching Strategies for Interpreting and Constructing Media Texts

[10.2] Studying Film Adaptations of Literature and Theater

[10.2a] Different Modes of Adaptation

[10.3] Organizing the Curriculum Around Teaching Strategies for Interpreting and Constructing Media Texts

[10.3a] Comparing Differences in Experience of Different Types of Media

[10.3b] Interpreting and Producing Narratives

[10.3c] Interpreting Characters’ Actions, Beliefs, Agendas, Goals

[10.3d] Contextualizing Texts in Terms of Cultural and Historical Worlds

[10.3e] Defining Intertextual / Hyptertextual Connections Between Texts

[10.3f] Uses of Intertextuality in Language Use and Voices in Chat, Blogs, or MOOs

[10.3g] Judging Quality of Literary and Media Texts

[10.4] Designing Units

[10.4a] Techniques for Developing Units

[10.4b] Evaluation and Assessment of Learning

[10.5] References

[10.6] Teaching Activities

Powerpoints

[10.3d.1] In the following unit, Carl Schulkin involves students in exploring how the Holocaust is depicted in history, film and literature.

[10.3d.2] This site provides selections from the DeWitt Clinton High School’s Literary Magazine from 1929–1942 material students could use to consider how literary texts reflect high school students' experiences of the Great Depression.

[10.3d.3, 10.3d.4] Michael LoMonico, in a Cable in the Classroom article, “Beyond Character, Plot, and Theme,” provides some examples of student projects.

Media history resources:

[10.3d.5] Media History Project
[10.3d.6] History of Media
[10.3d.7] National Museum of Photography, Film, and Televisin
[10.3d.8] History of Photography

Film history:

[10.3d.9] Film and History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies [ This journal examines the impact of motion pictures on our society and how films both represent and interpret history. ]
[10.3d.10] Museum of the Moving Image
[10.3d.11] UCLA Film and Television Archive

For further reading:

Cook, D. A.  (2004). A history of narrative film.  New York: W. W. Norton.

Ellis, J. C., &  Wexman, V. W.  (2001). A history of film.  Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Giannetti, L., & Eyman, S.  (2000).  Flashback: A brief history of film.  Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Kawin, B. F., & Mast, G.  (2006).  Short history of the movies.  New York: Longman.

Rollins, P. C.  (2004). The Columbia companion to American history on film.  New York: Columbia University Press

Thompson, K., & Bordwell, D.  (2002). Film history: An introduction.  New York: McGraw Hill.

Television history:

[10.3d.12] Television history
[10.3d.13] Television history: The First 75 Years
[10.3d.14] MZTV Museum of Television
[10.3d.15] Museum of Television and Radio
[10.3d.16] History of Television Technology
[10.3d.17] Television History Archive: Center for the Study of Popular Television [ Syracuse University ]
[10.3d.18] “Beaver, Bunker, and Bart: A History of the American Family in Television” [student PowerPoint presentation by Jacob, from Jim Burke's English Companion site]

For further reading:

Abramson, A.  (2002).  The history of television, 1942 to 2000.  Lanham, MD: McFarland & Company.

Hilmes, M., & Jacobs, J.  (Eds.).  (2004).  The television history book.  London: British Film Institute.

Marc, D., & Thompson, R. J.  (2004).  Television in the antenna age: A concise history.  Malden, MA: Blackwell. 

Moore, B., Bensman, M. r., & Van Dyke, J.  (2006).  Prime-time television: A concise history. New York: Praeger Publishers

Umphlett, W. L.  (2006). From television to the Internet: Postmodern visions of American media culture in the 20th century.  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Advertising history:

[10.3d.19] American Advertising Museum
[10.3d.20] Roman, J. (1998). Love, light, and a dream: Television’s past, present, and future. New York: Praeger Publishers.
[10.3d.20] Ad Access Project [ Duke University ]
[10.3d.21] Media, Advertising, and Society [ Barbara Breder, University of Iowa]

For further reading:

Mierau, C.  (2000). Accept no substitutes: The history of American advertising.  Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group (grade 8 and up).

Twitchell, J.  (2001). Twenty ads that shook the world: The century's most groundbreaking advertising and how it changed us all.  Pittsburgh: Three Rivers Press.

Digital/computer history:

[10.3d.22] History of the Web [ different archive sites ]
[10.3d.23] Center for History and New Media

Music history:

[10.3d.24] Rock + Roll Hall of Fame
[10.3d.25] History of Hip-Hop

For further reading:

Chapman, J.  (2005).  Comparative media history: An introduction: 1789 to the present. New York: Polity Press.

Cook, D. A.  (2004). A history of narrative film.  New York: W. W. Norton.

Ellis, J. C., &  Wexman, V. W.  (2001). A history of film.  Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

Fellow, A. (2004).  American media history.  New York: Wadsworth.

Gardiner, W. L. (2002). History of Media. New York: Trafford Publishing.

Perry, S. D.  (2004).  A consolidated history of media.  New York: Epistelogic.

Sloan, W. D., & Startt, J. D.  (2002).  The media in America: A history.  New York: Vision Press.