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January 17, 2013 by Peter Gutierrez
All movies are message movies because, as media texts, they all have media messages.
November 11, 2012 by Peter Gutierrez
Oral history, digital storytelling, critical evaluation of documentaries, fiction vs. non-fiction, and debunking stereotypes... Veterans Day offers all this and more.
October 17, 2012 by Peter Gutierrez
Stories about tweens simply aren’t like those about teens or adults or "children”...
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October 16, 2012 by Peter Gutierrez
Debuting on home video today happens to be a film that’s in the running for my personal favorite among American releases of 2012. Moonrise Kingdom is just that kind of special. If, however, you didn’t get a chance to catch it in theaters, but are a fan of director Wes Anderson’s other work, including his […]
October 5, 2012 by Peter Gutierrez
Andrea Arnold's visually arresting take on Emily Brontë reveals how much our experience of certain literary schools, genres, and movements is filtered through the countless “prestige” films we’ve all seen over the years.
October 2, 2012 by Peter Gutierrez
Some time has passed since I posted part one and part two of this series, so by way of reminder, we’re not just taking a look at recent graphic titles of merit and how they align with core curriculum but also with media literacy, visual literacy, and similar topics. Uncle Scrooge: “Only a Poor Old […]
September 13, 2012 by Peter Gutierrez
It’s the asking of tricky questions, not the providing of pat, politically-correct answers, that builds lifelong habits of mind in students.
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