Film And Television In Education

An Aesthetic Approach To The Moving Image

Author: Robert Watson Series: Social Research and Educational Studies Series

With the rise of television and video, film teaching has become inexpensive, causing an increase in the study and evaluation of film, in addition to practical film-making. The author provides an aesthetic framework for film study, giving ideas for possible creative work.

Product Unavailable

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Summary

Description

Until recently film has been impractical and expensive to teach, but television and video have provided unprecedented opportunities. Not only is it becoming possible for everyone to make use of a library of films on video, subjecting them to close evaluative study, but also, with the increasing availability of video cameras in schools and colleges, it is becoming possible for everyone to learn the language of this richly expressive form by using it. Through an engaged analysis of the beginnings of film, the nature of expression, the conventions of film and television, the development of narrative, and modern film theories, Robert Watson provides an aesthetic framework for film study which has implications and numerous suggestions for practical creative work.

About the Author

Robert Watson, At The London SchoolAt The London School of Film Technique (The London International Film School), Robert Watson received a vocational training which he has come to regard, over the last twenty years, as a model of disciplined creativity in education. His sense of the underlying significance of basic film conventions has evolved and been strengthened through a decade of teaching in comprehensive schools and, since 1986, his work at Bretton Hall.