What is New Literacies

In this final chapter, the researcher unites the strands of the project by examining the ways in which film sits among other visual texts and the ways in which future researchers and educators might engage with the medium critically and philosophically. The researcher offers an exploration of film as a textual space for escapism and confrontation, a medium that is seen as easy and difficult, and as site for critical encounters and critiques. Major theoretical elements of the pedagogical use of film as well as the nature of the medium itself are offered before attention is given to final implications for research, policy, and practice. This chapter serves as the culmination of the present project with insights for further steps in inquiry toward a more expanded visual and filmic epistemology.