Popular culture and representations of literacy
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Bibliographic Information
Popular culture and representations of literacy
(Routledge studies in literacy / edited by David Barton, 3)
Routledge, c2007
- : hardcover
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-175) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Movies are filled with scenes of people of all ages, sexes, races, and social classes reading and writing in widely varied contexts and purposes. Yet these scenes go largely unnoticed, despite the fact that these images recreate and reinforce pervasive concepts and perceptions of literacy.
This book addresses how everyday literacy practices are represented in popular culture, specifically in mainstream, widely-distributed contemporary movies. If we watch films carefully for who reads and writes, in what settings, and for what social goals, we can see a reflection of the dominant functions and perceptions that shape our conceptions of literacy in our culture. Such perceptions influence public and political debates about literacy instruction, teachers' expectations of what will happen in their classrooms, and student's ideas about what reading and writing should be.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Literacy in Everyday Life, Literacy on the Screen
- Section I. Representations of Literacy and Identity
- Chapter Two. The Pragmatic and the Sentimental: Literacy and Gender Roles
- Chapter Three: Who's Allowed to Read and Write? Literacy and Social Class
- Chapter Four: Writing Others: Literacy and Race
- Section II. Literacy and Social Contexts
- Chapter Five: Control and Action: Literacy as Power
- Chapter Six. The Ambiguity of Texts: Literacy as Danger
- Section III: Literacy Myths in the Movies
- Chapter Seven: The Passions of the Romantic Author: Literacy as Individualism
- Chapter Eight: The Triumph of the Word: Literacy as Salvation and Commodity
- Chapter Nine: Life is Not Like the Movies (Or Is it?): Literacy on Film and in Our Lives
- References
- Filmography
- Index
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