Media and American Studies in the EFL-Classroom
edited by Jurgen Donnerstag and Laurenz Volkmann
Hardback (Published)
(January 2008)
ISBN: 9783825355432
5.28 x 8.27 inches
Price: $44.00
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The growing interest in working with media, particularly the new digital media, in the EFL classroom is reflected in the ten articles of this volume. Their focus is specifically on “traditional” visual media such as films and video clips, but also on blogs, podcasts, digital storytelling, hyperfictions, Internet projects, creating learner software, etc. As the articles either explicitly or implicitly indicate, these new media formats are suitable for integration into current action- or task-based teaching forms. All articles aim to foster nuanced judgments on literature, culture, and popular media in the US. The media discussed here mirror the multiplicity of voices within the US, indicating the tremendous variety of cultural and political positions. They undermine lopsided and biased attitudes toward American mass media, forcing the learner to discuss critical positions within the US and to modify stereotypical media judgements.
- Edited by Jurgen Donnerstag
- Edited by Laurenz Volkmann
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Jewishness and Deconstruction in Paul Auster's Literary Work
Volume 155
The Culture of Corporeality
Aesthetic Experience and the Embodiment of America, 1945-1960
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Walking in the Wilderness
The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Painting
Volume 134
American Studies/Shifting Gears
A Publication of the DFG Research Network 'The Futures of (European) American Studies'
Volume 185
Migration – Miscegenation – Transculturation
Writing Multicultural America into the Twentieth Century
Volume 114
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The Americanization of Human Rights
Iranian, African, and Chinese Lives in American Autobiography
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Crossroads in American Studies
Transnational and Biocultural Encounters. Essays in Honor of Rudiger Kunow
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William Apess's Reflections of Ethnic Consciousness
Volume 156
Faith Matters
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Volume 149
Narrative Instability
Destabilizing Identities, Realities, and Textualities in Contemporary American Popular Culture
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