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Download full textFife, Ernelle – 1999
This paper illustrates several examples of visual science fiction use in teaching literary classics, and is based on the philosophy that students share a visual cultural literacy through movies and television, types of representation with which they are more familiar than with literary texts. It claims that visual science fiction can be utilized…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Cultural Literacy, Films, Higher Education
