Research Catalog

Title

Cinematic schooling : popular learning at the movies / by James Combs.

Author

Combs, James E.

Publication

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

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Details

Description

viii, 171 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"This volume uses the metaphor of schooling to highlight the conviction that the widespread attention given to moving pictures in their various venues is not only diverting and entertaining, but also educative, although subtle and suggestive rather that explicit and didactic. The importance of our movie experience includes the inescapable fact of play-learning, which, for many people, becomes accumulative over time and consequential in our imagination of the world, as well as providing guidelines and cues for possible lines of action and codes of socially relevant beliefs. Most movies are not propaganda, but what is communicated onscreen can be incorporated into our ways of thinking and acting. Although this process is difficult to ascertain certainly, nevertheless, for those interested in the overwhelming impact of moving pictures as a component and source of our thinking and action, it deserves serious inquiry and invites social concern as to its power as an experience from which we learn who are and what we do."--

Subject

• Motion pictures
• Motion pictures in education

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

MFL 18-2929

ISBN

• 152750784X
• 9781527507845

OCLC

1024138009

Author

Combs, James E., author.

Title

Cinematic schooling : popular learning at the movies / by James Combs.

Publisher

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Research Call Number

MFL 18-2929