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Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)
Margaret Mackey
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Description for Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)
Hardcover. Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5, 4 black & white tables, 1 graphs. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension.
Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230293007
SKU
V9780230293007
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99-15
About Margaret Mackey
MARGARET MACKEY is Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. She teaches, researches, and publishes widely in the areas of multimodal literacies, changing reading behaviours, and young adult literature. Her recent books are Mapping Recreational Literacies and Literacies across Media.
Reviews for Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature)
'A remarkable piece of scholarship that combines stringent empirical research with profound theoretical thinking.' - Maria Nikolajeva, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, UK