Popular culture and representations of literacy / Bronwyn T. Williams and Amy A. Zenger.
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TextSeries: Routledge studies in literacy ; 3.Publication details: New York : Routledge, c2007Description: viii, 186 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415360951; 9780415360951 (hardback : alk. paper); 0415360951 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Literacy -- United States | Popular culture -- United States | Motion pictures -- Social aspects | Motion pictures -- Plots, themes, etc | Culture in motion picturesDDC classification: 302.2/244 LOC classification: LC149 | .W455 2007Online resources: Click here to view Also available as an electronic resource. Taylor & Francis (http://www.taylorandfrancis.com)| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes filmography: p. [177]-180.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-175) and index.
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 : images of race and literacy -- Literacy and social contexts -- Control and action : literacy as power -- The perils of misreading : 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.
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