Coming Distractions: Questioning Movies

by Frank W. Baker

Encourages readers to question the influential messages in movies. Describes what media is and how movies are a part of media.

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Frank W Baker is a media literacy education consultant. He estimates he had conducted hundreds of workshops with educators in 20+ years. His lifelong work was recognised in 2019 by UNESCO's Global Alliance Partnership for Media & Information Literacy. He maintains the popular Media Literacy Clearinghouse (www.frankwbaker.com) resource website. He is the author of four books, the most recent of which are "Close Reading The Media" (Routledge) and "Media Literacy In The K-12 Classroom" 2nd edition (ISTE).

Reviews

[Randi · Rating 5 out of 5]

introduces information snd vocabulary about film while encouraging the reader to ask questions.

[Lindsey Rick · Rating 2 out of 5]

Used with fact and opinion lesson - found in our Journeys reading series.