Abstract

Reading and Teaching Popular Media Making Sense of the Media - From Reading to Culture A Boy's Own Story - Writing Masculine Genres Hardcore Rappin' - Popular Music, Identity and Critical Discourse The me in the Picture is not me - Photography as Writing Reading Audiences - The Subjective and the Social Intervening in Culture - Media Studies, English and the Response to Mass Culture In Other Words - Evaluation, Writing and Reflection Going Critical - The Development of Critical Discourse Solving the Theoretical Problem - Positive Images and Practical work Conclusion - Dialogues with the Future.