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- ISSN: 0013-8274
- E-ISSN: 2161-8895
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Textual Intervention and Film Literacy
- Source: English Journal, Volume 105, Issue 5, May 2016, p. 48 - 52
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- 01 May 2016
Abstract
This piece introduces methods—textual interventions—for teaching close reading through film literacy. Editing is the mechanism that creates meaning out of movingimages. To unlock a film’s visual “secrets,” we must break the sequences of editing; move its hinges; reread and revise the cut.
© 2016 by the National Council of Teachers of English