Table of Contents

Frame I: The big picture

1. What’s in a frame?

2. Framing in the visual arts

3. Framing in the performance arts

4. Visual and verbal frames

5. Frames of reference: framing within a theory of multimodality

Frame II: The case of language

6. Pre-school writing and drawing: before framing

7. Re-framing language arts/English as a school subject8. Zooming in: framing in practice

Frame III: Re-framing the picture

9. Breaking the frame: new horizons for English

10. Panning out: beyond rhetoric and framing

About the Author

Richard Andrews is Professor in English at the Institute of Education, University of London.