[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

[3.12.1] Harvey Daniels' Literature Circles, a book on setting up small-group discussions.

[3.12.2] For techniques on using response stances in leading discussions, see Langer & Close, 2001.

[3.12.3] One strategy for bolstering students’ confidence in the validity of their own responses involves “think-aloud” activities.

[3.12.4] Strategies for leading discussions

For further reading:

Bishop, E. (Ed.). (1999). Cinema-(to)-graphy: Film writing in contemporary composition courses. New York: Teachers College Press.

Heintz, K., & Stracey, M.  (2006).  Through the lens: Reading film texts in the English classroom.  New York: Cambridge University Press