Developing Film Study Guides.

Popular films can be used successfully in a wide range of language, content, and culture classes. Creating support materials in order to use a movie in such a class is an enormous task, but with careful planning it can be broken into four manageable components: contemplation, selection, segmentation, and construction. This brief paper provides a step-by-step guide to selecting, securing, showing, and developing a productive lesson plan based on a popular film. Copyright issues are explained. One table and three references are included. An appendix--Developers' Checklist--is also attached. (Author/KFT)