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Film History

McGraw Hill Film History offers instructors and students a rich selection of digital courseware, Film History textbooks, and step-by-step support to accommodate your needs.

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Connect for Film History Features

Connect for Film History introduces students to the world of film and challenges them to develop the critical analysis skills necessary to become informed viewers.

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SmartBook®

SmartBook with AI Reader is an adaptive e-reader that personalizes learning to each student, identifying knowledge gaps and focusing study time where it’s needed most. The AI Reader deepens understanding of assigned concepts, making study sessions more productive and preparation more effective. For instructors, real-time insights reveal where students excel or need support, helping you teach smarter and drive stronger outcomes.

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Criterion Tutorials

Author-narrated video tutorials leverage extensive clips from the Criterion Collection to provide an engaging introduction to core concepts from each chapter in the text. Accompanying assessments check students’ understanding of the book’s concepts, while providing a review of key chapter terminology.

Interactive Film Activities

Film stills from classic and contemporary movies are used as examples in these interactive activities that help students build fluency in the core vocabulary of each chapter by challenging them to identifying the terms in context.

Connect Reports

Save time and gain student insights. Connect provides customizable reports on student performance, learning outcomes, at-risk students, and integrates easily with LMS gradebooks.

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Film Clips

One hundred new film clips are now included from influential foreign films, experimental films, animated films, and fiction features. Examples include everything from Lumière shorts to film excerpts from prominent directors like Ingmar Bergman, Lotte Reiniger, Oscar Micheaux, and Alfred Hitchcock. The average length of each clip is six minutes and thus total about ten hours. Plus, they include whole scenes rather than the brief clips used with other textbooks and are taken from the best sources available.

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