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Pierdomenico Baccalario, Alessandro Gatti
Through different eyes
Non-Fiction
Textbooks
Integrating films into the teaching of secondary school
Cinema in Italian schools is often an unwelcome guest. Unwelcome because the use of cinema as a teaching and learning experience has never found a permanent place in the curriculum. It is an unwelcome guest because it is a multimedia educational resource that is difficult to place, difficult to fit into the school context, and even hard to understand. It’s time to turn this “unwanted guest” into a valuable travel companion.
- Bridges media literacy and curriculum needs, with adaptable tools and examples for real classroom use.
- Makes a case for cinema as a pedagogical language, not just a supplement — fostering student engagement through narrative and visual analysis.
Publisher:
Erickson
Target:
Adults
Year:
2024
Author
Manlio Castagna
Screenwriter, director, author, and film critic, he spent over 20 years as part of the artistic direction of the Giffoni Film Festival.
He made his debut in children's fiction in 2018 with the bestselling Petrademone trilogy (Mondadori), translated into several languages. Since then, he has explored a wide range of genres: from the historical fantasy of La notte delle malombre and Di fuoco e seta (both longlisted for the Strega Ragazzi Award and finalists in various literary prizes), to the horror of Goodwill and Nessuno verrà a prenderti, to nonfiction with the cinema guide 116 Movies to See Before You’re 16, and the genre-bending novel Dedalo & Dharma, all the way to social noir with Barriera (all published by the Mondadori Group).
The Reincarnation of the Klun Sisters and Try Not to Sleep are his adult fiction titles.
In 2022, he made his directorial and screenwriting debut in cinema with Il viaggio degli eroi, produced by Rai Cinema and awarded with record-breaking viewership on Rai1.
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