Employing Contemporary Cinema to Help Students Process Literary Criticism

Type of Presentation

Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

Target Audience

Higher Education

Presenter Information

• JoNette LaGamba, University of South FloridaFollow

Copyright

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Location

Room 111

Proposal

See presentation description.

Short 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