FilmBlog

Movies for Business

Movies for Business offers downloadable study guides to 12 movies suitable for teaching Management 101. The movies include Wall Street (one of my personal favourites), Roger and Me (Michael Moore) and Zulu (!). Each guide costs $5.95 and a sample guide is available for The Wizard of Oz. Alternatively, you can buy a book containing 5 guides.

Books on Teaching with Movies

I've created a Listmania! list on Amazon.com with a selection of books about teaching with movies.

Our Feature Presentation

Joe Champoux of the University of New Mexico is a pioneer in the use of film for teaching in business. He's written two workbooks, each containing exercises relating to twenty film scenes. The first is Our Feature Presentation: Organizational Behavior and the second Our Feature Presentation: Management. The big bonus is that the film scenes are accessible online (you have to enter the code given in the book). Unfortunately, they are only available for one year from the date of registration, which is a bit mean of publisher South-Western. Rather bizarrely, both books are not only based on the same film scenes (with a few exceptions) but the exercises are identical as well. This means you probably won't want to buy both books as I did. There's no script in the workbooks but there is a good introduction on using film as a learning resource.