Reframing the subject : postwar instructional film and class-conscious literacies /
Kelly Ritter.
- 1 online resource (366 pages)
- Pitt comp literacy culture .
- Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Ritter offers an extensive theoretical analysis of the alliance of the value systems inherent in postwar mental hygiene films (class-based ideals, democracy, patriotism) with writing education--an alliance that continues today by way of the mass digital technologies used in teaching online. She further details the larger material and cultural forces at work in the production of these films behind the scenes and their effects on education trends"--
9780822981176 (e-book)
Social guidance films--History and criticism.--United States Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States. Social classes in motion pictures. Motion pictures in education. Mass media in education--United States. Social mobility--United States. English language--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.