Film and television in education A aesthetic approach to the moving image

• Main Author: Watson, Robert
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London u.a Falmer 1990; Routledge; Taylor and Francis; Falmer Press; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: The Falmer Press Library on aesthetic education
• Subjects: Education; Fernsehen; Medienerziehung; Motion pictures; Motion pictures > Aesthetics; Motion pictures > Study and teaching; Motion pictures in education; Motion pictures in education > Great Britain > History; Study and teaching; Television; Television broadcasting; Television broadcasting > Study and teaching; Television in education; Television programs; Ästhetische Bildung; Reverse Shot Pattern; Young Man; Blind Date; Reverse Shot; Contemporary Society; Continuity Editing; Shooting Script; Long Shot; Birt Acres; Narrative Art; Girl Friday; Basil Fawlty; Make Up; Moving Picture; Common Language; Deep Focus; Multiple Camera Shooting; Fawlty Towers; Andrei Tarkovsky; Pop Videos; Beverly Hills; Dining Room Set; Commercial American Films; Camera Positions; Coca Cola Ads
• ISBN: 9781850007142; 1850007144; 1850007152; 9781850007159
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203214879

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.