Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films and Video Games - (Critical Approaches to Children's Literature) by M Mackey (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Stories are told today through many formats and young interpreters bring multimedia experience to bear on every narrative format they encounter. In this book, twelve young people read a novel, watch a film and play a video game from beginning to end. Their responses inform a new framework of contemporary themes of narrative comprehension.

Review Quotes

'A remarkable piece of scholarship that combines stringent empirical research with profound theoretical thinking.' - Maria Nikolajeva, Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, UK

About the Author

MARGARET MACKEY is Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. She teaches, researches, and publishes widely in the areas of multimodal literacies, changing reading behaviours, and young adult literature. Her recent books are Mapping Recreational Literacies and Literacies across Media.