116 Films to See Before You're 16
Manlio Castagna, Alessandro Ventrella
Through different eyes
Non-Fiction
Integrating films into the teaching of secondary school
Cinema in Italian schools is often an unwelcome guest. Unwelcome because the use of cinema as a teaching and learning experience has never found a permanent place in the curriculum. It is an unwelcome guest because it is a multimedia educational resource that is difficult to place, difficult to fit into the school context, and even hard to understand. It’s time to turn this “unwanted guest” into a valuable travel companion.
Publisher:
Erickson
Target:
Adults
Year:
2024
Author
Manlio Castagna
A screenwriter, director, writer and film critic, Manlio Castagna has also been involved in the artistic direction of the Giffoni Film Festival for more than 20 years. He made his debut in children’s fiction in 2018 with the bestselling Petrademone trilogy (Mondadori), which has been translated into several languages. Since then, he has explored many different genres: from historical fantasy with La notte delle malombre (The Night of the Malombre) and Draconis Chronicon, to horror with Goodwill and Le Belve (The Beasts), passing through the “story” of cinema with the manual 116 film da vedere prima dei 16 anni (116 Films To See Before You’re 16) and the novel Dedalo & Dharma, up to social noir with Barriera (all for the Mondadori group). La reincarnazione delle sorelle Klun (The Reincarnation of the Klun Sisters) and Prova a non dormire (Try Not to Sleep) are his adult fiction books. In 2022, he made his film debut as a director and screenwriter with “Il viaggio degli eroi”, produced by Rai Cinema and rewarded with record audience numbers on Rai1.
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