This collection re-imagines the study of English and media in a way that decentralises the text (e.g. romantic poetry or film noir) or media formats/platforms (e.g. broadcast media/new media). Instead, the authors work across boundaries in meaningful thematic contexts that reflect the ways in which people engage with reading, watching, making, and listening in their textual lives. In so doing, this project recasts both subjects as combined in a more reflexive, critical space for the study of our everyday social and cultural interactions. Across the chapters, the authors present applicable learning and teaching strategies that weave together art works, films, social practices, creativity, viral’ media, theater, TV, social media, videogames, and literature. The culmination of this range of strategies is a reclaimed blue skies’ approach to progressive textual education, free from constraining shackles of outdated ideas about textual categories and value that have hitherto alienated generations of students and both English and media from themselves.
- ISBN10 1911325043
- ISBN13 9781911325048
- Publish Date 4 October 2016 (first published 1 July 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Liverpool University Press
- Imprint Auteur Publishing
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 224
- Language English