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Seeing the Big Picture, Revised Edition: A Cinematic Approach to Understanding Cultures in America | 
| Authors: Ellen Summerfield, Sandra Lee
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/ESL
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 354731
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7 x 0.7
ISBN: 0472031678
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.436529089
EAN: 9780472031672
ASIN: 0472031678
Publication Date: August 14, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
A can-not-put-it-down book for educators! August 5, 2007
As a Chinese American, I have found this book very interesting to read and very helpful to use. Culture is the most difficult thing to be truly understood unless you are into it. Movies are one of the best ways to learn about a new culture because they bring people into that culture. This book "Seeing the Big Picture" by Summerfield and Lee provides the reader with movies that are representative to the study cultures. Rich background infomation is given and strategies to promote the understanding are introduced, to name just a few features of this book. I used this book at several teacher training/train-the-trainer workshops on munticultural education (provided by U of I Extension) and the participants were facinated! I highly recommend this book to educators for their efforts in teaching cultural understanding in the USA or simply in learning about different cultures themselves!
A Must for Teachers and Diversity Trainers! Great resource! July 19, 2007
I love this book! Film is such a great way to teach adults and older youth about the cultural differences among us. Summerfield and Lee have given us the tools to easily teach others about specific cultural differences. Not only do they suggest popular films that we can use and how to use them, but they also give us the historical context of the specific cultural group and several exercises to help students go deeper in their understanding and appreciation of differences. Anybody who picks up this book will find themselves drawn into the wonderful insights that are inside.
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