Welcome to the Case for Global Film

Although this website operates like a blog, it carries a wide range of material that is being organised so that it will, we hope, provide something interesting and useful for the casual user and for teachers and students with specific needs in relation to global film.

There are roughly three kinds of material here:

•  regular blog entries on films that we have seen recently on the cinema screen or on DVD/video/TV

•  notes from teaching programmes (day events, evening classes, film introductions etc.) or previously published in in the picture magazine

•  material specially written for the site to make it more useful for global film education.

How to find material

There are four ways to find anything on the site. In the top left-hand corner is a standard search box that searches all entries on the blog (there are over 300 entries and the list is growing).

In the left-hand sidebar there is a list of categories. Every entry appears in at least one category – many in more than one.

In the right-hand sidebar (down at the bottom) is a tag cloud. Tags are similar to categories, but they mostly refer here to more specialised classifications such as films by a certain director or star. The bigger the tag appears, the more entries there are.

Along the top margin are a series of pages. We intend to use these to provide more background for teachers and students and you will find links on these pages to a selection of entries suitable for work on a particular topic.

Links

References in the blog entries will often link directly to other material (i.e. on other sites), but we have also provided what we hope are useful links in the right-hand sidebar. Please use the comment box on the Contact Us page to let us know about other useful links.