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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960710803321

Autore

Chennault Ronald E

Titolo

Hollywood Films about Schools: Where Race, Politics, and Education Intersect / / by R. Chennault

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006

ISBN

9780230601055

0230601057

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/6557

Soggetti

Civilization - History

Conservation biology

Ecology

Motion pictures

Television broadcasting

Communication

Education

School management and organization

Cultural History

Conservation Biology

Film and Television Studies

Media and Communication

Organization and Leadership

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-185) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Reagan, 'Rithmetic, and Race; 3 Controlling the Savage Enemy: Punishing the Other and Criminalizing Urban Space; 4 Isolating and Protecting Whiteness; 5 Bringing the West to the Rest: The Transmission of Civilizing Knowledge; 6 Learning from School Films; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What do the Hollywood 'school films' of the 1980's and 1990's communicate about education and race? This book looks at The



Graduate , Blackboard Jungle , The English Patient , Dead Poets Society , Pulp Fiction , Ghost , The Wizard of Oz , Top Gun and Forrest Gump to answer the question.