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The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies - Third Revised Edition

The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies - Third Revised Edition

Paperback

Series: Counterpoints, Book 495

General EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 1433130858
ISBN13: 9781433130854
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Jan 31 2017
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The third edition of this book analyzes over 165 films distributed throughout the United States over the last 80 years to construct a theory of curriculum in the movies that is grounded in cultural studies and critical pedagogy. The portrayal of teachers in popular motion pictures is based on individual efforts rather than collective action and relies on codes established by stock characters and predictable plots, which precludes meaningful struggle. These conventions ensure the ultimate outcome of the screen narratives and almost always leave the educational institutions - which represent the larger status quo - intact and dominant. To interrogate the Hollywood curriculum is to ask what it means as a culture to be responsive to films at both social and personal levels and to engage these films as both entertaining and potentially transforming.

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