READING IN THE DARK

By John Golden. Can your students "read" a movie? This practical handbook gives teachers classroom tools to transform students into sophisticated movie critics who analyze movies using skills directly transferable to literary analysis. As students develop reading strategies (such as predicting, responding, questioning, and storyboarding), they will learn to discuss movies in terms of textual analysis (characterization, point of view, symbolism, and irony). To this end, the book defines film techniques, analyzes how those techniques are used in certain scenes (selected from about 30 well-known movies readily available on video), and provides model lesson plans for analyzing 11 particular movies. Appendixes: an index of films discussed, suggested readings, a glossary of film terms, and sample forms designed to facilitate film and story analysis. Illustrated. Grades 8–12. NCTE. 173 pages. ©2001.

View the table of contents, an excerpt from Chapter 2: Film and Reading Strategies, and an index of the films discussed

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