Category Archives: Media Examples for the Classroom

Finding productive media examples to use in the classroom can be time-consuming and challenging. Here are media examples other teachers have found useful along with descriptions and information about the teaching contexts in which they were used.

Critical Pedagogies & Film Education in Neoliberal Times: Notes for Educators who Haven’t Given Up

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Julie Wilson

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier   Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol. 3 (2)  Matteo Stocchetti  Åbo Academy, Helsinki University, Arcada University    Introduction Cinema is an influential form of expression with both manipulative and critical potentials. Neoliberalism needs cinema for its … Continue reading →

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“Talking About Whiteness”: Using Digital Pedagogy to Interrogate Racial Privilege

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Julie Wilson

   Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol. 3 (2)  Shelleen Greene  University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee   In this essay, I argue that digital media production can help facilitate critical dialogues about racial privilege that move beyond … Continue reading →

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Land of Inopportunity: The Hunger Games’ Illustration of Work, Food, Class, Gender and Race Inequality in the United States

Posted on December 30, 2014 by tony

A Media Literacy Assignment by Dr. Chrys Egan, Salisbury University Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games franchise uses a dystopian future “Panem,” a thinly veiled United States, to offer a thought-provoking social commentary on the growing economic disparities among its people. … Continue reading →

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Local Truths, Tactical Pedagogies: Documentary, Ethics, and Service Learning

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Julie Wilson

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 2(2) Spring 2014  Chuck Tryon  Fayetteville State University   This essay offers what was essentially a tactical response to both the devaluation of the liberal arts and the decline in funding for higher education. Specifically, … Continue reading →

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Advertisers’ image of housewives’ leisure time: 1926 American Laundry Machinery Company ad campaign in The Saturday Evening Post

Posted on January 11, 2014 by tccorrigan1

In his chapter “Advertising as Social Tableaux”, Roland Marchand discusses a 1926 American Laundry Machinery Company campaign in The Saturday Evening Post. Marchand uses the ads to illustrate advertisers’ presumptions about what housewives wanted to use their leisure time for. … Continue reading →

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Foregrounding Context Through Paratexts

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Julie Wilson

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 1 (3) Fall 2013  Charlotte Howell  University of Texas at Austin   The naturalized primacy of the text has a firm grip on many students’ relation to media, but I have found using paratexts in … Continue reading →

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Wrestling with Where the “Text” Is

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Julie Wilson

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 1(3) Fall 2013  Sam Ford  MIT/ Western Kentucky University   Discussing with Americana his scholarly work on the U.S.-style soap opera, Robert C. Allen (2004) said his interest began in a graduate seminar. Allen recalls … Continue reading →

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The Value of the Paratext in Teaching Media in a Foreign Country

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Julie Wilson

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 1 (3) Fall 2013  Marc Raymond  Kwangwoon University   In the Fall of both 2008 and 2009, I taught the course “History of American Cinema” in the Department of Cinema Studies at the Korean National … Continue reading →

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Teaching Hindi Film Song Sequences

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Julie Wilson

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 1 (3) Fall 2013  Monika Mehta  Binghamton University, SUNY   Teaching Hindi Film Song Sequences Video Presentation In this video presentation, Monika Mehta explains how she uses paratexts to teach Bollywood song-and-dance sequences and includes a … Continue reading →

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Is There a Paratext in This Class?

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Julie Wilson

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Vol. 1 (3) Fall 2013  Jonathan Gray  University of Wisconsin – Madison   A key tenet of my argument about paratexts in Show Sold Separately (2010) is that paratexts are not just additions to the text … Continue reading →

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