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Download full textHlynka, Anthony; Knupfer, Nancy Nelson – 1997
This paper addresses the television program "Cheers" and demonstrates one way of interpreting the complexity of messages within the program. The interplay of visual messages within the "Cheers" programming is referred to as intertextuality, or the relation of one text to another to express an idea. Two basic types of…
Descriptors: Comedy, Literacy, Popular Culture, Programming (Broadcast)
Peer reviewedFisherkeller, JoEllen – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2000
Argues that adolescents have tacit understandings about television as a system of communication with specific values and purposes. Suggests that students' everyday, informal knowledge of popular media can be an informal resource for developing more of their critical and creative sensibilities and expressiveness. Offers strategies to help students…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Language Arts, Literacy, Mass Media Role
