Ergebnisse (Lessons) eines Fortbildungsseminars des Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, USA 1995

The seminar in which these units were written was originally designed to focus on film in its capacity to adapt literature to its own medium. It soon became evident, however, that the diverse interests of the participants would not be well-served by limiting the films under discussion to cinematic adaptations of literary works. Although the concerns of the participants include literature and the teaching of literature through film, they also encompass many of the other arts reflected in cinema-theater, dance, photography, and music-and include as well an interest in film as a medium that shapes history and social concerns in a uniquely cinematic way. Indeed, all of these teachers, ranging from kindergarten through high school, agreed that a thorough grounding in the "reading" or interpretation of film per se best suited both their individual needs and their needs as a group. The reader of this volume will discover that interpretive strategies and approaches to cinema are put to a multiplicity of uses for many different kinds of classrooms.