RADFORD – Teresa O'Bannon, assistant professor in the RU department of recreation, parks and tourism, recently co-wrote Teaching with Movies: Recreation, Sports, Tourism, and Physical Education. The book focuses on utilizing more than 75 popular culture and documentary films as teaching tools in recreation, leisure, tourism, sport management and physical education courses.

Concepts highlighted in the book include environmental issues, leadership, diversity and commercial recreation. The work also includes surveys from instructors who have used the highlighted films in their classes. Movies included in the book are Ali, The Hudsucker Proxy and Super Size Me. To learn more, visit Human Kinetics.