ABSTRACT
Media and English have been sister subjects—along with drama—for the best part of half a century, and the case for an integrated model in which these three productively explore each other’s approach to meaning-making, literac(ies), story and culture has been made many times. This chapter presents two case studies which explore the potential relationships between English and media in more detail. In relation to the English curriculum, two polarised arguments have developed over the history of Media Education. One of these is the argument that Media Education merits its own curriculum space, and that its distinctive features are diluted by a merger with English. The opposing argument is that media and English belong together, an argument supported pragmatically in the UK by the embedding of media within English in some versions of the National Curriculum.
