Exploring the political dimensions of information literacy through popular film

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Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 265-282

  Detmering, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

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EID: 77954768442     PISSN: 15312542     EISSN: 15307131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pla.0.0110     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Heidi L. M. Jacobs, "Information Literacy and Reflective Pedagogical Practice", Journal of Academic Librarianship 34, 3 (May 2008):258.
2. Studies reflecting this approach to films include Kornelia Tancheva, "Recasting the Debate: The Sign of the Library in Popular Culture", Libraries and Culture 40, 4 (Fall 2005):530-46;
3. Marie L. Radford and Gary P. Radford, "Librarians and Party Girls: Cultural Studies and the Meaning of the Librarian", Library Quarterly 73, 1 (January 2003):54-69.
4. David Barton and Mary Hamilton, "Introduction: Exploring Situated Literacies", in Situated Literacies: Reading and Writing in Context, ed. David Barton, Mary Hamilton, and Roz Ivanič (London: Routledge, 2000), 1.
5. Jacobs, 258.
6. Christine Pawley, "Information Literacy: A Contradictory Coupling", Library Quarterly 73, 4 (October 2003):448.
7. Association of College and Research Libraries, Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (2000), American Library Association, http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency. cfm (accessed March 22, 2010).
8. James Paul Gee, "The New Literacy Studies: From 'Socially Situated' to the Work of the Social", in Situated Literacies: Reading and Writing in Context, ed. David Barton, Mary Hamilton, and Roz Ivanič (London: Routledge, 2000), 180.
9. James Elmborg, "Critical Information Literacy: Implications for Instructional Practice", Journal of Academic Librarianship 32, 2 (March 2006):194.
10. Dane Ward, "Revisioning Information Literacy for Lifelong Meaning", Journal of Academic Librarianship 32, 4 (July 2006):399.
11. Elizabeth E. G. Friese, "Popular Culture in the School Library: Enhancing Literacies Traditional and New", School Libraries Worldwide 14, 2 (July 2008):77-8.
12. Tara Brabazon, "Thinking Pop Literacies, or Why John Howard Should Read More", Australian Library Journal 55, 4 (November 2006):287.
13. See Diane Negra and Walter Metz, "The Gumpification of Academia? Teaching the Ideological Analysis of Popular Film and Television", in Visual Media and the Humanities: A Pedagogy of Representation, ed. Kecia Driver McBride (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004), 230-33;
14. Andrew Light, Reel Arguments: Film, Philosophy, and Social Criticism (Boulder: Westview, 2003), 8-9;
15. Stephen E. Slaner, "The Use of Film as a Teaching Technique to Promote Critical Thinking in the Classroom", Teaching for Our Times: A Journal of Good Teaching Practice 1 (1999):90.
16. Bronwyn T. Williams and Amy A. Zenger, Popular Culture and Representations of Literacy (New York: Routledge, 2007), 6.
17. David J. Brier and Vickery Kaye Lebbin, "Teaching Information Literacy Using the Short Story", Reference Services Review 32, 4 (2004):387.
18. Although beyond the scope of this discussion, a pedagogical framework centered on political engagement with films could conceivably be adapted to online instructional settings as well. Message boards, blogs, or other tools could certainly be used to post assignments and facilitate discussion. In regard to the use of films or films clips, depending on the situation, the librarian may need to work closely with technology and/or copyright specialists on campus to develop an effective and legally compliant learning environment.
19. "Moral Flexibility", Thank You for Smoking, DVD, directed by Jason Reitman (Beverly Hills: Twentieth Century Fox, 2006).
20. Elmborg, 198.
21. "You're Out", Burn after Reading, DVD, directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (Universal City, CA: Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2008).
22. Williams and Zenger, 105.
23. Brier and Lebbin, 384.
24. R. Barton Palmer, "The New Sincerity of Neo-Noir: The Example of The Man Who Wasn't There", in The Philosophy of Neo-Noir, ed. Mark T. Conard (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2007), 161.
25. Brabazon, 298.
26. For more information on the controversies associated with Stone, see Bernard von Bothmer, "Oliver Stone's JFK: Political Assassination, Kennedy, and Vietnam", War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 17, 1/2 (2005):242-51;
27. Robert A. Rosenstone, "Oliver Stone as Historian", in Oliver Stone's USA: Film, History, and Controversy, ed. Robert Brent Toplin (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000), 26-39.
28. Michael J. Medhurst, "The Rhetorical Structure of Oliver Stone's JFK", in The Films of Oliver Stone, ed. Don Kunz (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997), 209.
29. Oliver Stone, "Stone on Stone's Image (as Presented by Some Historians)", in Oliver Stone's USA: Film, History, and Controversy, ed. Robert Brent Toplin (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000), 49.
30. "Signing Off", W., DVD, directed by Oliver Stone (Santa Monica: Lions Gate Films, 2008).
31. "Hit Them Hard", W., DVD.
32. "You Break It, You Own It", W., DVD.
33. "Armed and Dangerous", W., DVD.
34. "Hitting It Off", W., DVD.
35. Stone, "Stone on Stone's Image", 55.
36. "Under Attack", W., DVD.
37. "WMDs", W., DVD.
38. "Facing the Media", W., DVD.
39. In its representation of the title character as an arrogant and uncritical leader, W. clearly reveals Stone's personal disdain for the real Bush, which the director has expressed on a number of occasions in the popular media. A characteristic example is Stone's description of Bush as a shallow person "with limited interests intellectually." See Scott Tobias, "Interview: Oliver Stone", The A. V. Club (October 16, 2008), http://www.avclub.com/articles/oliver-stone, 14318/(accessed March 22, 2010).
40. David Wyles, "W.: The Official Film Guide" (2008), http://www.wthefilms.com/guide/(accessed March 22, 2010).