Read Me : Biographical Explorations in the Land of Poets and Thinkers /
Reading traditionally played an important role in German self-identity. But in 2000 an international survey revealed that German pupils now lack basic reading skills, giving rise to nation-wide shock. Taking this national identity crisis as a starting point, this film aims to examine the act of read...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | German |
| Language Notes: | In German. |
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Manchester :
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester,
2008.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Reading traditionally played an important role in German self-identity. But in 2000 an international survey revealed that German pupils now lack basic reading skills, giving rise to nation-wide shock. Taking this national identity crisis as a starting point, this film aims to examine the act of reading from an anthropological perspective through personal portraits of 3 characters and their relationship to reading, observed, as it were, through a pair of reading glasses. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed November 04, 2016). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (29 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 00:28:59 |