Table of Contents

Part I: Using Film to Teach History

1. Introduction
2. Issues in Using Film to Teach History

Part II: Using Film to Develop Empathy

3. Empathy for Caring
4. Using Film to Develop Empathy as Perspective Recognition

Part III: Using Film to Develop Analytical or Interpretive Skills

5. Movies as Primary Documents
6. Using Film as a Secondary Source

Part IV: Using Film to Teach About Controversial Issues

7. Using Film to Teach about Contemporary Controversial Issues
8. Using Film to Teach Controversial Issues in History

Part V: Using Film to Visualize the Past and Film as Historical Narrative

9. Using Film to Visualize the Past
10. Using Film as Historical Narrative

About the Author

Alan S. Marcus is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. Scott Alan Metzger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the Pennsylvania State University at University Park. Richard J. Paxton is the Thomas S. Thompson Distinguished Professor of Education at Pacific University, Oregon. Jeremy D. Stoddard is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the College of William & Mary.

Reviews

"!Teaching History with Film provides useful guidelines for a thoughtful, sophisticated use of film to serve a range of instructional purposes in the secondary classroom. In doing so, it offers teachers and education faculty a helpful resource in effectively using a medium that has long been a staple of the history classroom."--The History Teacher "The book is a valuable resource of ideas and possibilities when contemplating how to teach history in the secondary classroom. The authors do a fine job of including real teachers' thinking around approaching their curriculum. In advocating for the thoughtful use of film to help students learn about broad themes, big issues, and pertinent topics spanning the passage of time, Marcus et al. show how history has the power to connect us all, past and present."--Teachers College Record "This book offers a provocative and emerging effort to incorporate film into social studies curricula."--Theory & Research in Social Education "Having read Teaching History with Film, we can no longer think of film as the too-familiar Friday standby...Carefully drawn classroom contexts, attention to the research base (much of it the authors') and a solid grounding in theory make it clear that teaching history with film has benefits commensurate with its challenges, especially in regard to highly controversial topics. This book is an outstanding contribution to the literature on teaching and learning history."--Linda S. Levstik, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Kentucky