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Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC)

Resource guide for instructors interested in adopting Open Access or Zero-Cost resources for their courses.

Open Education Resources by Course Number


Yelizaveta Moss & Candice Wilson, University of North Georgia Press, n.d.

Introductory Film textbook that covers a brief history of film, narration and story structure, cinematography, editing, sound, genre, and film analysis. Offers accessible PDF and Word formats.

Hardcopy Books Available at Cerritos College Equity Center


The Equity Center (located in the Santa Barbara Building) offers free copies of Theater textbooks:
  • Living Theater: A History, Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb
  • Living Theatre: A History (4th Edition), Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb 
  • Theater: The Lively Art (3rd Edition), Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb
  • Theater: The Lively Art (4th Edition), Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb
  • Theater: The Lively Art (5th Edition), Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb
  • Theater: The Lively Art (6th Edition), Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb
  • Theatre: the Lively Art (7th Edition), Edwin Wilson and Alvin Goldfarb
  • The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre, John Russell Brown
  • Broadway: An Encyclopedia, Ken Bloom
  • Rehearsals Off, George Booth

Streaming Films & Videos Provided by the Library


Library of streaming videos including contemporary feature films, documentaries, and foreign films from the largest movie studios, including Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, NBCUniversal, Columbia Pictures, Lions Gate, MGM, Miramax, and many more. For class use only, and as such, these films cannot be screened publicly.

Videos licensed and captioned by Cerritos College.

On-demand streaming video for over 16,000 films including content from the BBC, PBS, and Critereon Collection. Public performance rights for educational use are included. Contact the library to request captioning. 

See Shakespeare performed at the historic outdoor Globe theatre and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, an indoor Jacobean theatre, in London. Includes 30 Shakespeare plays recorded live.

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