"The relative autonomy of reading practices by critical, cultural, and social formations: An ethnographic and textual analysis of re-entry women students' interpretations of ""Educating Rita"""

"This study traces the 'relative autonomy' of discursive practices across a critical, cultural, and social formation by different 'interpretive communities' in response to the 1983 British film, ""Educating Rita."" Employing ethnography as its method, along with textual analysis, it has sought to discover how re-entry women students' interpretive practices of a film about a British working class woman's hunger for a university education articulate filmic structures of meaning to gender and to social class ""habitus."" The study asked these non-traditional students to relate the film to their own educational careers and lived experience."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Page, Judy Lynn

Contributors dc:contributor

• Hay, James

• Education, Language and Literature
• Women's Studies
• Education, Reading
• Sociology, General
• Cinema

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1992 Page, Judy Lynn

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9236561
(UMI)AAI9236561

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22492