Children, Film and Literacy

by Rebecca Parry and Becky Parry

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137294329
• ISBN13: 9781137294326
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"