Fake, Fact, and Fantasy: Children's Interpretations of Television Reality

by Maire Messenger Davies

Book Overview

Based on a study examining the meaning of the term "media literacy" in children, this volume concentrates on audiovisual narratives of television and film and their effects. It closely examines children's concepts of real and unreal and how they learn to make distinctions between the two. It also explores the idea that children are protected from the harmful effects of violence on television by the knowledge that what they see is not real.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805820469
• ISBN13: 9780805820461
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.2"