Film as a Text Situated With Other Multimodal Texts

Abstract

This chapter explores film as one of a series of texts that teachers utilized alongside other multimodal documents for literacy instruction. In particular, this chapter aligns the process of teaching with film with the possibilities for teaching with graphic novels and other visual texts. Teacher voices and individual graphic novel works are highlighted as the author considers these texts, and a comparison of textual affordances is offered with attention to the connections between and among texts. Specifically, graphic novels and their affordances are considered along with filmic texts. This chapter culminates in an autoethnographic approach to viewing the cinematic qualities of graphic novels for identity exploration.