Reframing the Subject: Postwar Instructional Film and Class-Conscious Literacies

by Kelly Ritter and Kelly Ritter BA MFA PhD

"Mental hygiene" films developed for classroom use touted vigilance, correct behavior, morality, and model citizenship. They also became powerful tools for teaching literacy skills and literacy-based behaviors to young people following the Second World War. In this study, Kelly Ritter offers an extensive theoretical analysis of the alliance of the value systems inherent in mental hygiene films (class-based ideals, democracy, patriotism) with writing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822963884
• ISBN13: 9780822963882
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.8" x 10.0"