|Empire of the Word
Mark Johnston
CA • 2009 • 52'
vo/ov EN • st/ond FR/NL
Reading and writing are essential skills, enabling us to act as informed individuals in a modern world that is saturated with information. But historically, how did reading emerge? How did the growth in literacy shape our lives and the world around us? How do readers resist the forces that attempt to deny them access to culture: poverty, religion, authoritarianism, censorship and even their own brains.
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