Matthew S. Monahan
Apkon, Stephen.
The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens
. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2013.
Citizenfour
. Dir. Laura Poitras. Feat. Edward Snowden (himself), Glenn Greenwald, and William Binney. HBO Documentary Films, 2014.
Jacobson, Sid and Ernie Colón.
The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
. London: Viking, 2006. Print.
Golden, John.
Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom
. Urbana: NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English), 2001.
Golden’s book is a practical guide for anyone who is just getting started moving away from using movies in the classroom as reinforcement and beginning to use films as texts. In addition to having chapters on terminology and cinematic effects, film and reading strategies, and analysis, Golden includes his approach to teaching a number of complete films including John G. Avildson’s
Rocky
and Spike Lee’s
Crooklyn
. The book also includes a number of reproducible activity sheets.
Lawson, John Howard.
Film the Creative Process: The Search for an Audio-Visual Language and Structure
. New York: Hill and Wang, 1964.
Lost Liberties: Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom
. Edited by Cynthia Brown. New York: The New Press, 2003.
This collection of essays remains a seminal text in the study of surveillance culture. It covers a wide array of topics including Civil Liberties, racial profiling, and “The War on Terrorism: Guantanamo Prisoners, Military Commissions, and Torture.”
Maynard, Richard A.
The Celluloid Curriculum: How to Use Movies in the Classroom
. Rochelle Park, New Jersey: Hayden Book Company, 1971.
Although one might assume that a book on using film in the classroom from the 1970s may be dated and obsolete, this could not be further from the truth. Yes, much has changed since Maynard wrote the chapter “A Practical Guide to Teaching with Films”; however, his anecdotes about teaching in Philadelphia public schools seem all too familiar to today’s veteran teacher (almost half of a century later). Additionally, Part II of the book “The Movie as the Message- Film as a Historical and Social Object of Study” includes seven chapters on topics ranging from “American Cinematic Interpretations of War,” “The Great Depression on Film,” and “Movies and McCarthyism.” Maynard’s chapter on “Movies and Literature” also retains significance.
Morris, Errol. "The Certainty of Donald Rumsfeld (Parts 1-4)."
Opinionator
. The New York Times, 25-28 Mar. 2014. Web. 08 July 2016.
Errol Morris: Eye Contact
. FLM Magazine, Dec. 2004. Web. 07 July 2016.
Neufeld, Josh.
A.D.: New Orleans after the Deluge
. New York: Pantheon, 2009. Print.
The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld
. Dir. Errol Morris. Feat. Donald Rumsfeld (himself). History Films, 2013.
