ISBN:
0203008499
,
0415360951
,
9780203008492
,
9780415360951
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 186 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in literacy 3
Parallel Title:
Print version Popular Culture and Representations of Literacy
DDC:
302.2/244
Keywords:
Motion pictures Social aspects
;
Motion pictures Plots, themes, etc
;
Literacy
;
Popular culture
;
Culture in motion pictures
;
Massenkultur
;
Analphabetismus
;
Film
;
Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit
;
Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit
;
Macht
Abstract:
This book explores how everyday literacy practices represented in mainstream movies inevitably influence cultural conceptions of reading and writing from issues of identity to education policy to classroom practices
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Literacy in everyday life, literacy on the screen; Part I Representations of literacy and identity; 2 The pragmatic and the sentimental: Literacy and gender roles; 3 Who's allowed to read and write? Literacy and social class; 4 Writing others: Images of race and literacy; Part II Literacy and social contexts; 5 Control and action: Literacy as power; 6 The perils of misreading: Literacy as danger; Part III Literacy myths in the movies; 7 The passions of the romantic author: Literacy as individualism
Description / Table of Contents:
8 The triumph of the word: Literacy as salvation and commodityConclusion; 9 Life is not like the movies (or is it?): Literacy on fi lm and in our lives; References; Filmography; Index
Note:
Includes filmography: p. [177]-180 -- Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-175) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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