These posters’ apparently value-free aspect is perhaps what’s most worth exploring with young people…
Joss Whedon, Modern Dress Shakespeare, and the Problem of Class in Classrooms
June 18, 2013 by
Both curriculum and pop culture, perhaps not coincidentally, have no problem dealing with class systems when they’re at a remove.
How NOT To Teach Bestselling Books and Comics, or Hollywood Blockbusters
July 17, 2012 by
Years ago media literacy educators noticed something dismaying: kids were becoming downright cynical. Healthy skepticism had been replaced with a kind of universal suspicion. Today, some teachers might like to revive that approach…
Death by Media: The Hunger Games and Teen Authenticity (Part 2)
March 22, 2012 by
“After dinner we watch the replay in the sitting room… And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.”
Death by Media: The Hunger Games and Teen Authenticity (Part 1)
March 20, 2012 by
“There’s this sort of upbeat soundtrack playing under it that makes it twice as awful because, of course, almost everyone on-screen is dead.”