Film and Anime

  

Film & Anime Resources

Feature films are an exciting way to complement a subject while engaging your students.  Japanese films are amongst the most popular world-wide, with many recently being remade into Hollywood box office hits.  The following articles provide teachers with ideas, techniques, and precautions concerning using films in class.

• Teaching Visual Literacy
• Shall We Dance?
• Film and Photography in Japan
• Guides to Japanese Films

Anime and manga are useful resources for teaching about Japanese language, history, culture, society and religion.  Many of today's youth are avid watchers of Japanese anime on television or DVD, and a growing number read manga that are being made available to the English-speaking audience.  The following articles provide teachers with the benefits of using these popular resources as teaching tools, as well as the precautions that one should take.

• Teaching Anime: Exploring a Transnational and Transmedia Movement
• A Teacher's Companion to the Anime Companion
• Anime - An Annotated Filmography for Use in the Classroom
• Aspects of Popular Culture
• Anime and Manga: It's Not All Make-Believe
• Seeing the World Through a Stranger's Eyes: Exploring the Potential of Anime in Literacy Classrooms
• Manga as a Teaching Tool: Comic Books without Borders
• Learn about Manga at Manga University

Japanese Literature and Folk Tales can be extremely useful in the classroom, providing students another format in which to make thematic connections with other literary works more commonly studied in American schools.  The following provides a list of articles, lessons, and books that may be useful to use in a literature or history classroom.

• Asian Educational Media Service: for Students of Literature & Humanities
• Japanese Literature and Resources (English & Japanese)
• Japanese Literature Lesson Plans (membership fee required)
• Japanese Folk Tales (English) and Lesson Plan

 

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