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Peer reviewedCross, Stephen M.; Crick, Robert Alan – English Journal, 1995
Presents two articles in which teachers describe how film can be used in the language arts classroom to accomplish many of the same things that books can. Shows, in particular, how film facilitates the teaching of literary terms and devices and how it heightens interest in the student research paper without detracting from the basic lessons of the…
Descriptors: Film Criticism, Films, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices
Peer reviewedCrick, Robert Alan – English Journal, 1992
Describes how Mark Twain's essay "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" helped students to get interested in writing and inspired them to write a similar essay critiquing the movie "Batman." Provides excerpts from students' essays. (PRA)
Descriptors: Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation, Secondary Education, Student Motivation
