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Teaching International Politics: What the Historian-Filmmaker Has to Offer
- Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
- Center for the Study of Film and History
- Volume 1, Number 1, February 1989
- pp. 2-13
- 10.1353/flm.1989.a400408
- Article
- Additional Information
Peter C. Rollins, the producer of Accuracy in Media's two films about Vietnam, offers his observations on the importance of critical film study for the teaching and understanding of world affairs, and his pointed opinions concerning the weaknesses of most film and video treatments available to date. In calling for training in "visual literacy" he offers insight into the elements of visual interpretation in his own films.