Film And Television In Education: An Aesthetic Approach To The Moving Image (Falmer Press Library on Aesthetic Education)

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. First published in 1990. The aim of the series is to define and defend a comprehensive aesthetic, both theoretical and practical for the teaching of the arts. There can be little doubt that of the six great arts which the Library of Aesthetic Education is committed to defending and defining, film has been the most ignored in the curriculum of our schools. There is a grand irony in this for film is not only the one unique art form developed in our own century but also the most unequivocally popular. Film was envisaged as part of a system of communications which had to be decoded in terms of ideology and contextualized in terms of power and control. Robert Watson's Film and Television in Education with its telling subtitle An Aesthetic Approach to the Moving Image sets out to remedy the neglect. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of Figures......Page 7 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Series Editor's Preface......Page 10 Education: The Legacy of the 1960s......Page 14 The Beginning of Film......Page 24 Conventional Narrative Sequence......Page 30 From Snapshots to the Long Take......Page 56 Language, Genres and Television......Page 108 Film in the Narrative Arts......Page 144 Bibliography......Page 164 Index......Page 182 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. Education: The Legacy Of The 1960s -- The Beginning Of Film -- Conventional Narrative Sequence -- From Snapshots To The Long Take -- Language, Genres And Television -- Film In The Narrative Arts. Robert Watson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 151-168). Whatever became of the art form of the first half of our century over the last twenty-five years? First Published In 1990. Routledge Is An Imprint Of Taylor & Francis, An Informa Company.