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Children, Film and Literacy
Becky Parry
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Description for Children, Film and Literacy
Hardcover. Children, Film and Literacy examines children's engagements with film and how these engagements impact on their developing literacy, identity and textual productions. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFC; DSY; JFD; JNLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and unfamiliar, fantasy and everyday narratives and this narrative play is closely connected to identity, literacy and textual practices. Family is key to the encouragement of this social play and, at school, the playground is also an important site for this activity. However, in the literacy classroom, some children encounter a discontinuity between their experiences of narrative at home and those that are valued in school. Through film children develop ... Read more
Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children's lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and unfamiliar, fantasy and everyday narratives and this narrative play is closely connected to identity, literacy and textual practices. Family is key to the encouragement of this social play and, at school, the playground is also an important site for this activity. However, in the literacy classroom, some children encounter a discontinuity between their experiences of narrative at home and those that are valued in school. Through film children develop ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137294326
SKU
V9781137294326
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Becky Parry
Becky Parry is Lecturer at the University of Leeds, UK, and has previously worked as a teacher, a cinema educator and as a children's film festival director. She developed a city-wide media production project, Cube, which gave young people in Sheffield the opportunity to collaboratively create media such as magazines, websites and films in order to express opinions as well ... Read more
Reviews for Children, Film and Literacy
"Becky Parry's book makes an important case for the interrelationships between children's lived cultures, their experiences of film, and their emerging literacies. The argument is wide ranging, across narratology, cultural identity, and childhood studies, and is therefore invaluable for students and teachers in those areas. It is also elegantly and engagingly written." - Mark Reid, Head of Education at the ... Read more