The 400 Blows as Cinematic Literacy Narrative
2007; Volume: 34; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0737-5328
Autores Tópico(s)Comics and Graphic Narratives
ResumoIntroduction In this article, I will discuss a multiphase project I designed to engage a group of secondary English preservice teachers in a process of reconceptualizing initial problematic views of held upon entering Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program. sequential activities of project (listed below) involved preservice teachers in acquiring a more complex understanding of and practices. At center of this project was idea of narratives. To set up my discussion about project, I will first explain what a narrative is and then I will outline specific activities comprised project. In their influential article Literacy Narratives, Eldred and Mortensen (1992) define narratives as stories that foreground issues of language and literacy.... Literacy narratives sometimes include explicit images of schooling and teaching, and they include texts both challenge and affirm scripted ideas about literacy (p. 513). Eldred and Mortensen also state, When read for narratives, study how constructs a character's ongoing, social process of language acquisition and we focus on battle over language is foregrounded in text (pp. 512, 529). But what kinds of texts can be read as examples of narratives? specific Eldred and Mortensen analyze in detail as a narrative is Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion. Another kind of can be taken up as a narrative is short story. For example, in her article of Socialization: Literacy in Short Story, Eldred (1991) analyzes My Kinsman, Major Molineaux by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Barn Burning by William Faulkner, and The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara as narratives dramatize the collision between competing discourse communities, their language conventions, and their inherent social logics (p. 689). Along with plays and short stories, autobiographical texts can be read for narratives construct, as Mary Soliday (1994) shows in her article Translating Self and Differences through Literacy Narratives. Soliday explains as part of a basic writing course, she involves her students in reading a variety of narratives, including Amy Tan's (1991) essay My Mother's English, Gloria Naylor's (1991) essay The Meaning of a Word, Richard Rodriguez's (1982) book Hunger of Memory, as well as others (Gilyard, 1991; Hoffman, 1989; Hoggart, 1957; Lu, 1987). Novels can also be read as narratives, as Clark and Medina (2000) explain in their article How Reading and Writing Literacy Narratives Affect Preservice Teachers' Understandings of Literacy, Pedagogy, and Multiculturalism. As part of a project whose purpose is concisely encapsulated in their title, Clark and Medina engaged preservice teachers in reading as narratives novels Push by Sapphire (1997), Wild Meat and Bully Burgers by Lois-Ann Yamanaka (1997), and Rivethead by Ben Hamper (as well as autobiographical works Always Running La Vida Loca by Luis Rodriguez, 1993; Mother Tongue by Amy Tan, 1991; and Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong-Kingston, 1985). above examples illustrate plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, and novels can be read for narratives construct. What these kinds of texts have in common is are all print texts. In rest of this article I will discuss how films can be interpreted as narratives--films such as 400 Blows, Corn Is Green, Dead Poets Society, Educating Rita, Higher Learning, Paper Chase, and many more. In project I designed, Francois Truffaut's classic film 400 Blows (1959) was analyzed as a cinematic narrative. As mentioned, context of project is of an MAT program. …
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