PROSPECT OF LITERATURE (8 films)

Duration: 29 min

Year Published: 1956

Creator: KETC

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Titles are: 1. LIVING PAGE. Describes communication by means of the printed page as a decoding process involving ability and experience on the part of the reader. Stresses the importance of developing skill in discovering the why and how of written communication. 2. WRITER'S TONE OF VOICE. Illustrates, through music and poetry, the importance of interpreting the writer's tone of voice in deriving meaning from written communication. Defines tone as the relationship between what is meant and what is said. Points out that all written communication has some kind of tone. 3. ROVING EYE. Explains how the writer selects and arranges words to achieve proper placement of detail for meaning. Stresses the importance of understanding the relationship between the writer's roving eye and point of view. 4. SEEING DOUBLE. Explains why and how writers arrange a series of impressions or fragments, selected from actuality, to give meaning to a subject. Discusses several techniques used to set the mood for a poem. Demonstrates these techniques through paintings. 5. ILLUSTRATION AND THE TEXT. Discusses the collaboration between authors and illustrators in illustrating a text. Describes the problems involved and stresses the importance of the illustrator and the author working together. 6. CONCERN LITERATURE. Describes ways in which novelists use their knowledge of music to build characters, mood, and plot in prose fiction. Defines the role of music in literature from a functional point of view. 7. THE HEROES. Describes the deterioration of the hero concept in literature during the past thousand years. Asks and answers the question 'What has happened to the hero?' Draws examples from the days of Beowulf down to the time of Studs Lonigan. 8. WITH AN AMERICAN ACCENT. Develops the theme that the ultimate aim of literature is ethical. Defines the accent of literature as a characteristic way of thinking which reflects a particular manner of speaking or sounding. Points out that literature must serve a cause or purpose.

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Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)