If you can still lay your hands on it, there's a very good article by
Richard Bernstein (New York Times, Nov 26, 1989) called "Can the Movies
Teach History," which skewers the practice of confusing cinematic history
for history. See also: Foner, Eric. "Hollywood invades the classroom."
(the use of movies to teach history obscures the truth)(Column)<italic>
New York Times</italic> v147 (Sat, Dec 20, 1997)
..you're absolutely right: fair use doesn't necessarily equal smart
use.
At 10:35 AM 05/08/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Fair use and K-12 teachers? I still wonder about the high school
history
>teacher teaching the summer class in U.S. History and using all those
>movies. "The Alamo" is not exactly historically accurate. Perhaps
we're
>more appalled at what is being shown in lieu of real teaching than in
fair
>use?
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Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley 94720-6000
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
"Everything wants to become television" (James Ulmer -- Teletheory)