Author: [log in to unmask] Date: 12/28/94 2:10 PM [Editor's note: This message was submitted to SCREEN-L by the "Author" noted above, and not by Jeremy Butler ([log in to unmask]).] hello, I am a grad student who teaches a section of freshman writing entitled "Films about Love Sex and Society." I have been using Giannetti's book Understanding Movies in my class but this is really too long and involved for a freshman writing seminar and I am trying to find other shorter introductory texts for my students which would provide most of the information Giannetti gives in his first four chapters. I require my students to master some of the basic vocabulary of mise en scene analysis and i teach the class mainly as a writing about film class -- applied critical analysis. So, if anyone has any suggestions about books i should check out either introducing mise en scene and photographic analysis or on specifically writing about film, i would really appreciate it. thanks in advance, stephanie gaynor tufts university