On Wed, 8 Sep 1993 11:50:05 EDT Julie Simon said: >I'm set to teach a film literacy class next semester and I'm looking >for text recommendations. Everything I own is out of print already. > >I need a text that talks specifically about visual and audio content >editing and montage. > >Using...examples of commercially accessable films. > >Please e-mail me any ideas you might have. > >Thanks.. > >Julie Simon >Univ. of Baltimore > I like using Louis Giannetti's _Understanding Movies_ in my introductory classesat Brooklyn College. It covers all the necessary bases, from cinemato graphy to theory, has an in-depth analysis of Citizen Kane, montage frames from Potemkin, storyboards from North By Northwest, etc. It seems more accessible than some of the other so-called introductions to film. A big plus is the pro fusion of still photos, with enlightening captions, that cover the classics and also many recent foreign and Hollywood films. The cover of the Sixth Edition is a still from Edward Scissorhands, for example. I think it feels contempor ary to students, but still has lots of substance. I usually start an intro course with the chapters in the second half of the book on narrative and screen play, and then work back to the technical stuff and then wind up with theory and ideology. sign ROBERT WITHERS FILM DEPARTMENT THAT WAS ZEN, THIS IS TAO . . . BROOKLYN COLLEGE BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11210 (718) 951-5664