Children, Film and Literacy

Becky Parry is Lecturer at the University of Leeds, UK, and has previously worked as a teacher, a cinema educator and as a children's film festival director. She developed a city-wide media production project, Cube, which gave young people in Sheffield the opportunity to collaboratively create media such as magazines, websites and films in order to express opinions as well as gain creative skills.

"Becky Parry's book makes an important case for the interrelationships between children's lived cultures, their experiences of film, and their emerging literacies. The argument is wide ranging, across narratology, cultural identity, and childhood studies, and is therefore invaluable for students and teachers in those areas. It is also elegantly and engagingly written." - Mark Reid, Head of Education at the British Film Institute (BFI), UK "This is an engaging read [and a] long overdue book ... The strength of this book is that Parry argues to draw on the extensive, expanded notion of storytelling children gain from watching films and make that impact on their conventional literacy learning." - Media Education Association "This is an engaging read for media educators and, as Jackie Marsh points out in the foreword, it is long overdue." - Media Education Research Journal

• 1. A Narrative on Narrative 2. Children's Film: Children's Cultures 3. Assets, Resources and Repertoires 4. Children as Readers of Film 5. Researching Film with Children 6. Film Identities in Practice 7. Film in Children's Storytelling 8. Film in Children's Film Productions 9. The Case for Children's Film