1. The essay stems directly from my teaching on the workshop course at Maryland in 1974 and on a less ambitious ‘Film and Political Ideas’ course I was able to run at Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry in 1975–6. Many of the details about the Maryland film course are taken from the following papers by members of the teaching team: Gertrude Steuemagel and James M. Glass (April 1976) Films and Political Concepts: Psychoanalytic Theory and Its Relationship to the Study of Political Theory, presented at the Midwest Political Science Meeting, Chicago; Gerald W. Hopple (April 1976) The Use of Film in Teaching Political Theory: A Questionnaire Study, presented at the Midwest Political Science Association meeting, Chicago. The first of these papers is written in sections, each author having written separate sections. When referring to this paper below I have mentioned the name of the individual responsible for the section to which I am referring. These papers have been very useful in the preparation of my own piece. If however I have at any point misrepresented their analysis the fault is entirely mine.
2. Glass, op. cit., 2.
3. Hopple, op. cit., 2.
4. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions;Kuhn,1962
5. G. Steuernagel and J.M. Glass, op. cit.