xii Preface° Resource lists per chapter for short and feature fi lms and
reading options.° PowerPoint slides present highlights of each chapter.
° Supporting information for use of the DVD footage and
short fi lms.- Textbook website off ers:
° Technical information and links for instructors and students
regarding digital editing resources and moviemaking tools.° Regularly updated lists of chapter-aligned motion pictures.
° Streaming video of supplemental short fi lms and additional
educational content.° Full fi lmmaker interviews, supplementary readings, and links
to academic resources and related texts.° Author blog.
Author Biography
Carl Casinghino has drawn on many years of work in motion picture
production, studies, and pedagogy to write Moving Images: Making Movies,
Understanding Media. Carl earned a B.A. at Princeton University, where
he wrote his senior thesis on director Marcel Carné, then entered the
graduate film and television program at New York University. There, he
wrote and directed several shorts and served in the camera department
on a number of films, including a feature on the history of Princeton
University and the award-winning short The Architect. After working
full-time at New York University, he moved on to production jobs in
Paris, France, followed by a return to the United States, where he began
teaching in the late 1990s.
At Suffi eld High School in Connecticut, Carl has created curricula and
coursework for fi lm and video classes that he has been teaching for over a
decade. As a teacher of media literacy and digital video production at the
high school level, he developed this textbook in conjunction with work in the
classroom and graduate studies that he completed for a Masters in education
at Union Institute and University. In particular, signifi cant segments of the
studies he fulfi lled in this program focused on collaborative learning and
teaching for creativity, both of which are key foundations of Moving Images:
Making Movies, Understanding Media.Acknowledgments
Th is project would not have been remotely possible without the support,
patience, and enormous contributions of its primary editor and chief sounding
board, Alexandra Casinghino. Her keen critical analyses and bountiful spirit
have been integral to its genesis. It was only through my wife Alexandra’s
generous collaboration that this textbook could be completed.Copyright 2010 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s).