Moving Image Media in English
This series of teaching guides seeks to support the moving image requirement in GCSE syllabuses for English, introducing key concepts fro understanding film and television. Each guide offers lively and up-to-date material with lots of discussion points and consists of approximately 30 pages of photocopiable notes for students, plus stimulating ideas and guidelines for teaching the topic. An excellent resource and great value for money.
Reading Films
by Jackie Newman and Roy Stafford
Moving Image Media in English is a new series designed to support the moving image requirement in the National Curriculum for English at Key Stages 3 and 4. Reading Films introduces films and television programmes as media texts that use specific techniques and presentational devices to produce meaning. The guide explores how these techniques are used to develop visual and aural narratives for specific audiences, provides a useful introduction to film language and guidelines for analysing film narrative. It includes a series of case studies which compare and analyse a selection of films and television centring on young people, including Clueless, Pleasantville, Pretty in Pink, Kes and TV soaps. It includes clear teaching notes, student information sheets and student activity sheets.
Ordering information
- Catalogue no. BR030
- Price: £16.95
Order online at the BFI Filmstore or phone Palgrave Macmillan Orders on 01256 302866
Representation, Realism and Fantasy in Films
This teaching guide complements Reading Films and explores the social and media context of film texts. It introduces students to the concept of representation in film and its relationship to genre, making connections between film and literature. It also enables students to analyse and evaluate media texts in social and historical contexts. Focusing on case studies of The Crucible, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pleasantville, Kes, The Wizard of Oz and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this guide offers a detailed exploration of how the world is represented to us through the use of metaphor and allegory in films.
Ordering information
- Catalogue no: BR031
- Price: £16.95
Order online at the BFI Filmstore or phone Palgrave Macmillan Orders on 01256 302866
Special offer
Buy both packs for only £29.00 (Catalogue no. BRS032).
Reviews for Reading Films
"Well organised and thoughtful, Reading Films offers informative notes for teachers ... Everywhere there are intelligent, probing questions and tasks.." Laurence Astler, TES
"... [T]he book contains a wealth of information which, if nothing else, will make those who study it watch films in quite a different way in future. A very interesting resource." Catherine Spalding, School Librarian.
