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Book SynopsisThis 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of strategies is a reclaimed 'blue skies' approach to progressive textual education, free from constraining shackles of outdated ideas about textual categories and value that have hitherto alienated generations of students and both English and media from themselves.
Table of ContentsPreface, by Nick Peim 1. Doing Text, by Julian McDougall 2. Reading Text, by Steph Hendry 3. Wearing Text, by Claire Pollard 4. Writing Text, by Pritpal Singh Sembi 5. Playing Text, by Barney Oram 6. Making Text, by Emma Walters 7. Performing Text, by Mark Parsons 8. Connecting Text, by Chris Waugh 9. Eating Text, by Gill Burbridge 10. After the Subject, by Pete Bennett Index
