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9780203008492

Popular Culture and Representations of Literacy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203008492

  • ISBN10:

    0203008499

  • Copyright: 2007-02-13
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Literacy in Everyday Life, Literacy on the Screen
Representations of Literacy and Identity
The Pragmatic and the Sentimental: Literacy and Gender Roles
Who's Allowed to Read and Write? Literacy and Social Class
Writing Others: Literacy and Race
Literacy and Social Contexts
Control and Action: Literacy as Power
The Ambiguity of Texts: Literacy as Danger
Literacy Myths in the Movies
The Passions of the Romantic Author: Literacy as Individualism
The Triumph of the Word: Literacy as Salvation and Commodity
Life is Not Like the Movies (Or Is it?): Literacy on Film and in Our Lives
References
Filmography
Index
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