Abstract
A DVD compilation from the Media Education Foundation is at the center of a Basic Writing course focused on the critical analysis of media.
Highlights
A couple of years ago at the Left Forum, I picked up a copy of the DVD compilation Writing About Media, produced by the Media Education Foundation (MEF)
In addition to clips from mainstream media grouped into four categories (Consumerism, Gender and Sexuality, Race and Class, and Media and Politics), the DVD contains clips from MEF documentaries in each of these categories and a related writing curriculum developed by Peter Elbow
I find Peter Elbow's suggested writing assignments to be a little too unfocused and process-oriented for my taste, so I have melded them with my own assignments that correspond to the categories into which the DVDs are grouped, and with each assignment emphasizing a certain form and skill: Essay 1 (Autobiography): Skill: Sentence Subject: Consumerism
Summary
WRITING ABOUT MEDIA WITH PETER ELBOW (2007, 120 MIN, DVD) A couple of years ago at the Left Forum, I picked up a copy of the DVD compilation Writing About Media, produced by the Media Education Foundation (MEF).
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