Insights of Hindsight: On past and present uses of film for future media and information literacy

• Many contemporary efforts to improve media and information literacy (MIL) still exclude two important factors – film and history. To explain why such an oversight might be counterproductive, discourses surrounding Swedish educational films 1910–1930 are combined with reflections on their pedagogical potentials today. State authorities and individual pioneers, respectively controlling and promoting the domestic film culture, are presented. Examples illustrating that film formerly was seen as an important pedagogical medium and an empirically valid prime source material worth archiving are also high- lighted. Two reasons for and a potential solution of future MIL challenges are finally presented.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Filmvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Studies on Film (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Media literacy Educational film Sweden 1910-1930 Archive Collaboration

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