The Hollywood Curriculum
Teachers in the Movies
©2010
Textbook
XIV,
193 Pages
Series:
Counterpoints, Volume 256
Summary
The second revised edition of The Hollywood Curriculum 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 movies focuses on individual effort rather than collective action, and relies on stock characters and predictable plots, precluding meaningful struggle. Conformation to these conventions ensures the ultimate outcome of the screen narratives and almost always leaves the educational institution—which represents 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.
Details
- Pages
- XIV, 193
- Publication Year
- 2010
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781453917749
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781433108730
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-1-4539-1774-9
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2004 (March)
- Keywords
- Education Film Studies Media Studies Cultural Studies cultural studies critical pedagogy status quo
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2010. XIV, 193 pp., num. ill.
- Product Safety
- Peter Lang Group AG