Applicable Theories?

I had my PERC appointment with Richard and that was very helpful because it determined nobody has tried to do exactly what we are doing. Richard always asks good questions and a good one was, "have you determined that there just aren't any good theories in film that would apply to this research?" The answer was no, so I went back and took at look at film theory. I then read some articles he found for me and did a little more research online. The following represents a simple list of some theories we might want to use as a foundation for our research. I've included Wikipedia links here just as an introduction, knowing that we must go to more reliable sources for citation.

1). Film Theories: Auteur; camera stylo; introduced to the US by Andrew Sarris, but originated with the French New Wave critics/directors. Some helpeful links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auteur_theory
http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/publications/16+/auteur.html
http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/publications/16+/potter.html
2). Social Psychology Theory: There are many, but I like the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Model developed by Osborn and Parnes in the 1950s-60s:
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Creative/Brain/cps.htm
3). Education Theory: Our research seems to fall under the broad category of Constructivist Learning Theories. The father of this seems to be Jean Piaget, who did research on the fact that learners construct knowledge out of their experiences (play):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(learning_theory)