Popular Culture and Sophisticated Reading: Men in Black |
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| Authors: | Margaret Mackey |
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| Institution: | Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta |
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| Abstract: | Young people learn about processing texts in different media from popular culture. Films are released accompanied by a huge variety of back-up and satellite texts. This article explores a set of associated texts linked with the film Men in Black. Different materials offer varying reading invitations. A schema of such reading invitations, developed from the Men in Black texts, involves seven categories: immersion, recapitulation, second-level engagement, technical analysis, commentary, spin-off, and parody. |
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| Keywords: | Culture and literacy media literacy reading popular culture stories |
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