Connolly, S.;
(2025)
Knowledge and Knowing in Media and Film Studies.
[Book].
UCL Press: London.
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For traditional subjects such as History, Art and Science, debate about the nature of knowledge in the school curriculum has produced a growing literature on the relationship between disciplinary knowledge and what is taught in schools. For newer subjects, however, the path is less clear. Knowledge and Knowing in Media and Film Studies is the first book to grapple with the question for these two related subjects. Steve Connolly argues that, while Media and Film Studies each have a clear epistemological base, consideration of craft skills alongside factual knowledge and criticality has led to the development of different criteria for what constitutes valuable knowledge than in traditional school subjects. The book problematises this difference through a genealogy of both subjects as they appear in the English school curriculum, charting their historical and disciplinary origins within that system. In so doing it finds that, far from being ‘new’ subjects, Media and Film Studies have parallel histories with more established subjects. Using a range of primary and secondary data, including interviews with media and film teachers, case studies and historical sources, the book provides an account of knowledge and knowing in school Media Studies and Film Studies, which both consolidates existing views and proposes some new perspectives.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Knowledge and Knowing in Media and Film Studies |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800082489 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800082489 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800082489 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Author, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Connolly, S. 2025. Knowledge and Knowing in Media and Film Studies. London, UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800082489 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | epistemology, media education, media literacy, film education, curriculum, production work, film-making, media studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10207935 |
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