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Chapter 10 |
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[10.3g] Judging Quality of Literary
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To inductively derive some criteria for judging, for example, film quality, students could go on-line to some of the leading film review sites:
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[10.3g.1] Rotten Tomatoes
[10.3g.2] Movie Review Query Engine
[10.3g.3] Internet Movie Date Base
[10.3g.4] Check the Grid
[10.3g.5] All Watchers
[10.3g.6] MetaCritic
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[10.3g.7] Click here for Tim McCormick's Literary Critic, an collaborative exchange site to engage in on-line critical analysis.
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Oscar winners sites:
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[10.3g.8] Oscar.com
[10.3g.9] Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[10.3g.10] IMDB site [ past best movie winners ]
[10.3g.11] “And the Winner Is . . . Exploring the Role of the Academy Awards and Film in American Society” [ New York Times Lesson Plan ]
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[10.3g.12] Pop Matters
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[10.3g.13] Students could formulate criteria for judging the quality of television journalism in terms of objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and balance. For criteria employed in judging student television productions: National Student Television Award of Excellence
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[10.3g.14] They could also formulate criteria for judging prime-time television drama programs: Helena Sheehan, “Criteria for Criticising TV Drama.”
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[10.3g.15] The Cornell University Library site identifies five criteria as relevant for judging the quality of web sites.
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[10.3g.16] Kathy Schrock's educator sites [ lots of links on evaluating web sites ]
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[10.3g.17] Yahooligans Teachers’ Guide [ accessibility, accuracy, appropriate, and appealing ]
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[10.3g.18] University of California, Berkeley Library
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[10.3g.19] Rhetoric of Mass Media
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[10.3g.20] Students could also judge a totally new form of art, “Web art,” by going to the Museum of Web Art and assessing examples of Web art at that site.
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[10.3g.21] Webquest: Evaluating Webbed Sources for Research [ Michael Day ]
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[10.3g.22] Webquest: Art criticism [ judging based on groups making presentations related to description, analysis, interpretation, and judgments ]
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[10.3g.23] Webquest: Art criticism [ judging based on an art history approach ] |
[10.3g.24] Lesson: “And the Winner Is,” Evaluating Movies |
[10.3g.25] Dean Duncan: Evaluating Movies: Some Critical Criteria |
[10.3g.26] A. O. Scott, New York Times film critic: evaluating movies |
[10.3g.27] Reading and Writing Film Reviews |
[10.3g.28] Dartmouth Writing Program: The Challenge of Writing about Films |
[10.3g.29] Google: online film criticism |
[10.3g.30] Online Film Critics Society (based on Rottentomatoes ratings) |
[10.3g.31] efilmcritic.com |
[10.3g.32] Everyonesacritic: share film criticism |
[10.3g.33] Independent Film Critics |
[10.3g.34] Movie Review Query Engine |
[10.3g.35] Brightlights Film Journal |
[10.3g.36] Blogcritics: Film/Television |
[10.3g.37] Blog: Cinemarati: film reviews |
[10.3g.38] Blog: Lucidscreening: film reviews |
[10.3g.39] Blog: Greencine Daily: film reviews |
[10.3g.40] Blog: Justanamateur: film reviews |
[10.3g.41] Blog: Cinecultist: film reviews |
[10.3g.42] Village Voice Film |
For further reading |
Corrigan, T. (2007). Short guide to writing about film, 6th ed. New York: Longman. |
Heintz, K., & Stracey, M. (2006). Through the lens: Reading film texts in the English classroom. New York: Cambridge University Press |
Lopate, P. (Ed.). (2006). American movie critics: An anthology from the silents until now. New York: Library of America. |
Turan, K. (2005). Never coming to a theater near you. New York: PublicAffairs
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