Courses: Communication and civic participation course; rhetorical theory, political communication, leadership. Objective: Students will explore citizenship through role models and story-telling. (Contains 1 table.)

This syllabus, based on a genre approach to experimental works, focuses on exploring film both as a personal expression and as a medium, rather than as mass entertainment. (PD)

Presents a structure for a course that highlights the best cinemas of Eastern European countries, in order to acquaint students with cinematic traditions of the region. Discusses course activities, coursework and evaluation, and resources. Advocates structuring the course around the film of experience of Eastern Europe, and presents and discusses…

Using films, readings, and textual and intertextual analysis, the course covers the cinema of India, Egypt, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Cuba, and Senegal. (PD)

Describes a high school course in American fiction in which students read an excerpt from a work of literature, watch the film adaptation of the work, and study both from a particular literary standpoint. Notes that such an approach appeals to reluctant readers. (RS)

Describes 10 units in a course on "film noir," a cinema that tells stories of alienation linked to issues of social and sexual power. Includes units on visual and narrative style, space, classic detective tradition, and emotional solitude.(PD)

Examines how movies have formed history by (1) analyzing theories of history; (2) comparing historical perspectives in certain films; and (3) exploring how film language and techniques reflect history. Focuses on films from the United States, Europe, Japan, or Brazil. (PD)

Approaches the study of New German Cinema through a genre approach. Includes German history and political issues. (PD)

Describes abnormal psychology course centered around films which include "King of Hearts,""A Woman Under the Influence,""David and Lisa,""In Cold Blood," and "The Boys in the Band." Each film deals with a fundamental concept such as psychopathology, neurosis, psychosis, insanity, and sexuality. (KC)

Discusses a college course on "the Bible as Literature." Describes how, by focusing on the biography of Jesus as portrayed in the Gospels, and comparing it to other cultural narratives about him (in the Apocrypha, films, biographies, and novels), students learn to see how various ages and cultures have reshaped Jesus's life and mission.…

Provides a course description that emphasizes a structural and functional approach to the musical as genre film and as entertainment. Covers the history of the genre from 1929 to the present. (PD)

Identifies the specific, unique, and important elements of audio education required by film professionals. Presents a model unit to be included in a film studies program, either as a separate course or as part of a film production or introduction to film course. Offers a model syllabus for such a course or unit on sound in film. (SR)

Intended to provide a paradigm for teachers planning a course in science fiction film, the instructional approach outlined in this paper examines films in relation to each other and to culture. The paper provides a course outline, a discussion of lecture topics, a suggested reading list, and a film list. The instructional approach suggested by the…

Provides units of study for a graduate level seminar designed to help students gain command of the conventions and nuances of filmmaking, while encouraging them to critique these conventions as they develop an emergent voice of their own. (PA)

Rhetorical studies of the media during the past decade have tended to focus upon specific types of media such as music, television, film, and radio. Most recently, however, rhetorical studies such as James Chesebro's "The Media Reality" suggest that rhetorical critics are moving toward an examination of the collective influence of the media in…