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Scanning the Movies

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Genre
documentary television program
Country
Canada
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This series examines current movies to see how they affect pop culture. It was made by the host John Pungente for teachers to help teach media literacy in schools.

educationalanalyticalinformativecasualbroadnonfictionfocused

What happens

Scanning the Movies is a Canadian educational television series which debuted in September 1997, and takes a look at current films to understand and analyze films impact on pop culture. The show was created by host John Pungente for educators in media literacy. The show is produced by Bravo! Canada. Scanning the Movies is presented in classrooms as part of the Cable in the Classroom project. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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