Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A Web-Linked Guide to Resources and Activities

Chapter 3: Film Techniques

[3.2] Visual Literacy: Starting with the Image

[3.3] Studying Images through Digital Editing

[3.4] Comics and Film Technique

[3.5] Teaching Film Technique

[3.5a] Lighting

[3.5b] Editing

[3.5c] Sound

[3.6] Exploring Film Technique through Video Production

[3.7] Exploring Editing Through Storyboards and Animations

[3.8] Analysis/Evaluation of Film Technique

[3.9] Film History

[3.10] Television History

[3.11] Responding to and Analyzing Films

[3.12] Fostering Classroom Discussions of Film

[3.13] Image-Sound Skim

[3.14] Writing about Films

[3.15] Film Study Resources

[3.16] Film Journals/Magazines

[3.17] References

[3.18] Teaching Activities

Chapter 3

[3.10] Television History

Television history

[3.10.1] Links on the media and the Vietnam War

[3.10.2] PBS: The American Experience: Vietnam

Prime-time soap operas:

[3.10.3] Dallas
[3.10.4] Homicide: Life on the Street (see also hlotslinks)

[3.10.5] Despite the fact that there are 36.2 million Hispanics in America (2000 census), there remains little programming with Hispanic actors or actresses, or about themes and experiences of interest to Hispanic audiences (current.org).

[3.10.6]  Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation’s Archive of American Television on Google Video

[3.10.7]  Current TV: channel in which audiences can submit their own video material

[3.10.8]  The Museum of Television and Radio, New York

[3.10.9]  MZTV Museum of Television, Toronto

[3.10.10] Early Television Museum

[3.10.11] University of Maryland: Library of American Broadcasting

[3.10.12]  National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television: Television

[3.10.13]  UCLA Film and Television Archive

[3.10.14]  Syracuse University Library: Television History Archive

[3.10.15]  Television History: The First 75 Years

[3.10.16]  About.com: Television inventors

[3.10.17]  The Media History Project: Television history

[3.10.18]  History of Television Technology

[3.10.19]  Andre Lange: University of Brussels: History of Television

[3.10.20]  Television Heaven: History of British television

[3.10.21]  Wikipedia: Television

[3.10.22]  Syllabus: Tara McPherson, USC: Introduction to American Television,

[3.10.23] New York University's Film and TV Today

For further reading:

Bonner, F. (2003). Ordinary television: Analyzing popular TV. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Castleman, H., & Podrazik, W. J. (2003). Watching TV: Six decades of American television. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Edgerton, G.R., & Rollins, P. (Eds.). (2003). Television histories: Shaping collective memory in the media age. Lexington, KT: University of Kentucky Press.

Hilmes, M., & Jacobs, J. (Eds.). (2003). The television history book. London: British Film Institute.

Newcomb, H. (Ed.). (2000). Television: The critical view. New York: Oxford University Press.

 
 

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