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3rd Edition
Review

Celluloid Blackboard: Teaching History with Film (HC)
Celluloid Blackboard
Teaching History with Film

 


Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts
Available from NCTE


Making Short Films
(includes DVD)
ISBN 1-58115-444-5
Allworth Press


Girl Director
A How-To Guide for the First-Time,

Flat-Broke Film and Video Maker
Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1-58008-675-6
Photo of book cover 
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Filmmaking for Teens: Pulling Off Your Shorts
by Troy Lanier 
and Clay Nichols
Michael Wiese Productions
 


Movie Making Course:
Principles, Practice, And Techniques:
The Ultimate Guide for the Aspiring Filmmaker

by Chris Patmore  
ISBN 0-7641-3191-5
Publisher: Barron's
Film
Film Analysis Handbook
 
CINEMATIC STORYTELLING
The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know
Pub: Michael Wiese Productions
ISBN: 1-932907-05-x
TOC/Section 1
 

If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die: The Power Of Color In Visual Storytelling
Focal Press

ISBN: 0-240-80688-3 
 

A Movie Lover's 
Guide to
Film Language: 
Classic Scenes
From Timeless Films

Great Films and 
How to Teach Them
William Costanzo
NCTE, ISBN: 0-8141-3909-4
link to publisher

Reel Images
Film and Televison 
(2nd Ed)
Barrie McMahon, 
Robyn Quin
ISBN: 0-7329-2944-X
Table of contents

The Oxford Guide
To Film Studies

Oxford Univ. Press
ISBN: 0198711247
Film
Film
By Sarah Jones
ISBN: 158340256x 
Publisher: Smart Apple Media

Understanding Film Texts
Meaning and Experience

BFI  ISBN 0-85170-799-8

Teaching Scriptwriting, Screenplays and Storyboards for Film & TV Production
BFI, ISBN 0-85170-974-5
 : Studying Film (Studying the Media)
(Studying the Media)
2001
ISBN/ASIN : 0340761334

Flashback
A Brief History of Film

(5th Ed)