Knowledge and Knowing in Media and Film Studies

Steve Connolly

ISBN 10: 1800082495 / ISBN 13: 9781800082496

Published by UCL Press Mai 2025, 2025

Neuware - Are media and film studies truly new subjects Steve Connolly uncovers their deep disciplinary roots and evaluates how knowledge is constructed and taught in the classroom. Seller Inventory # 9781800082496

Synopsis:

For traditional subjects such as History, Art and Science, debate about the nature of knowledge in the school curriculum has produced a growing literature on the relationship between disciplinary knowledge and what is taught in schools. For newer subjects, however, the path is less clear.Knowledge and Knowing in Media and Film Studies is the first book to grapple with the question for these two related subjects. Steve Connolly argues that, while Media and Film Studies each have a clear epistemological base, consideration of craft skills alongside factual knowledge and criticality has led to the development of different criteria for what constitutes valuable knowledge than in traditional school subjects. The book problematises this difference through a genealogy of both subjects as they appear in the English school curriculum, charting their historical and disciplinary origins within that system. In so doing it finds that, far from being ‘new' subjects, Media and Film Studies have parallel histories with more established subjects. Using a range of primary and secondary data, including interviews with media and film teachers, case studies and historical sources, the book provides an account of knowledge and knowing in school Media Studies and Film Studies, which both consolidates existing views and proposes some new perspectives.

About the Author: Steve Connolly is Associate Professor of Curriculum and Cultural Education at Anglia Ruskin University.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Knowledge and Knowing in Media and Film ...
Publisher: UCL Press Mai 2025
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu