A two-semester elective high school course in the study, evaluation, and appreciation of the cinema as an art form is outlined in this publication. An overview of the course--goals, approaches for the development of units, teaching activities and methods, and texts--precedes a listing of the 10 curriculum units. Subjects of the units are film and literature, film language, the director-actor relationship, art and fantasy, student projects, and film genres--western, war, adolescent, comic, and documentary films. Appended are the year's schedule of showings and activities, an annotated bibliography of film books, a bibliography of periodicals about the film medium, and a list of films viewed by teachers in preparation for the course. (JM)