The Northern Highlands Mission Statement Emphasizes a Commitment to Provide an Intellectual
The Northern Highlands mission statement emphasizes a commitment to provide an intellectual and cultural environment that is optimum for learning, creativity, and independent thinking. The mission statement also states a philosophy of perpetually evaluating and adjusting the educational process to ensure its relevance to current and future needs. In the pursuit of these goals, teachers may select media arts classroom materials that could seem to be controversial or to represent a point-of-view not that of everyone in the community. The selection of videos, films, TV shows, slides, compact discs, photographs, and artwork is never made lightly. These choices are designed to encourage students to explore ideas and issues in a safe environment. Through the exposure to issues from a variety of perspectives, with the teacher serving in loco parentis, students hone critical tools necessary to develop a personal philosophy.
It is this dedication to education, not indoctrination, that underlies all decisions about media arts. Since the media exert an almost constant influence in our lives, it is essential that students be encouraged to develop both critical and aesthetic appreciation of these images/texts. Materials chosen for study meet course objectives, deal with problems of style, texture, tone, and theme, and the ways in which media shape student’s perceptions of themselves and others.
There may be rare circumstances when an alternative assignment is made by the classroom teacher to accommodate an individual’s special sensitivities.
Casablanca
Visions of Light
American Cinema: The Studio System
North by Northwest
Spellbound
Notorious
Citizen Kane
American Cinema
A Journey through American Film with Martin Scorcese
Psycho
Hitchcock Interview & Documentary
Rear Window
DOA
Mildred Pierce
The Big Heat
Gilda
The Lady from Shanghai
Metropolis
Double Indemnity
Chinatown
L.A. Confidential
Sin City
Stagecoach
High Noon
The Searchers
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Unforgiven
Thelma and Louise
It’s a Wonderful Life
Rocky
Forest Gump
The Gods must be Crazy
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Jaws
The Breakfast Club
12 Angry Men
It Happened One Night
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Silence of the Lambs
Gone with the Wind
Last of the Mohicans
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan
Nueve Reinas
Run Lola Run
Don’t Look Back
Life is Beautiful
Shawshank Redemption
Usual Suspects
Das Boot
Memento
The Shining
Edward Scissorhands
Goodfellas
The Sixth Sense
Sleepy Hollow
Raging Bull
Annie Hall
The Godfather
The Help
Gladiator
Back to the Future
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Star Wars
______has my permission to view and critique the above mentioned films during the course of the year in Film Studies. I have read the list and give my permission evidenced by my signature.
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