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date: 24 May 2022

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This article further emphasizes the need for media and film studies pedagogy in higher education. It also surveys the pedagogy debates that occurred in the United States and Britain since the 1960s. The article first outlines the terms of the debate, and then introduces the distinction between surface and deep learning. It also presents personal experience about attempts to study film studies pedagogy through the analysis of film studies textbooks, both in paper and digital form.

Keywords: film studies, media studies, pedagogy, pedagogy debates, surface learning, deep learning, film studies textbooks

Warren Buckland

Warren Buckland is senior lecturer in film studies, Oxford Brookes University, and author of Directed by Steven Spielberg (2006); Film Studies (2nd ed., 2003); Studying Contemporary American Film (with Thomas Elsaesser, 2002); The Cognitive Semiotics of Film (2000); and editor of The Film Spectator (1995) and Complex Storytelling in Contemporary World Cinema (2008). He is also editor of the journal New Review of Film and Television Studies.

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