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Autore: | Chennault Ronald E |
Titolo: | Hollywood films about schools [[electronic resource] ] : where race, politics, and education intersect / / Ronald E. Chennault |
Pubblicazione: | New York, N.Y., : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (201 p.) |
Disciplina: | 791.43/6557 |
Soggetto topico: | Schools in motion pictures |
Education in motion pictures | |
Race relations in motion pictures | |
Motion pictures - United States | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Hollywood films about schools |
ISBN: | 0-230-60105-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910451149303321 |
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