Employing Contemporary Cinema to Help Students Process Literary Criticism
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Room 111
Proposal
See presentation description.
Presentation Description
Literary criticism may be though of as an information base that is often difficult for students to fully access, evaluate, and incorporate into their own thinking. They shy from the usual tedious research methods and end up with perfunctory results. This presentation considers the advantages of using contemporary cinema as a medium to teach varied forms of literary criticism: color as rhetorical vehicle, archetypal (Jungian and Campbell), biological and historical, and Marxist. Students will thoroughly enjoy this classroom strategy because of their overwhelming fascination with video formats and pop culture.
Keywords
Information literacy, Literary criticism, Contemporary cinema
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
LaGamba, JoNette, "Employing Contemporary Cinema to Help Students Process Literary Criticism" (2008). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 32.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2008/2008/32
Employing Contemporary Cinema to Help Students Process Literary Criticism
Room 111
See presentation description.
