Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sometimes We Expect Great Things
1. Social Inequalities and the Enterprise of Schooling
2. Wartime Literacies and the Curricular Tensions of Democracy
3. Mediating Literacies: The Postwar Literacy Sponsorship of Composition Textbooks and Instructional Films
4. Modeling Social Literacies on Film: Coronet Instructional Films and Class Maintenance
5. Enacting Literacies: Current-Traditionalism via Coronet’s Role-Play
6. The Rhetorical Economies of Mass Literacy Instruction in the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Observation
Notes
Works Cited
Index