| Description |
ix, 284 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments ix -- -- Introduction: Dreaming the Academy 1 -- SUSAN EDGERTON AND PAUL FARBER -- -- Part 1: Constructing and Contesting the Image -- of the Ivory Tower 15 -- -- 1. The Personal Professor and the Excellent University 17 -- SUSAN TALBURT AND PAULA M. SALVIO -- 2. Picturing Institutions: Intellectual Work as Gift -- and Commodity in Good Will Hunting 39 -- JO KEROES -- 3. Education for Fun and Profit: Traditions of -- Popular College Fiction in the United States, 1875-1945 51 -- SUSAN IKENBERRY -- 4. Those Happy Golden Years: Beverly Hills, 90210, -- College Style 67 -- MICHELE BYERS -- 5. Rap (in) the Academy: Academic Work, Education, -- and Cultural Studies 89 -- TOBY DASPIT AND JOHN A. WEAVER -- -- Part 2: The NewVocationalism and the Marketing -- of Higher Education 115 -- -- 6. Selling the Dream of Higher Education: -- Marketing Images of University Life 117 -- PAUL FARBER AND GUNILLA HOLM -- 7. In Just Six Short Weeks, You Too Can Be a -- Truck Driver, a Teacher, or a Preacher a Doctor, -- Lawyer, or Engineer 131 -- KAREN ANIJAR -- 8. "Meritocracy" at Middle Age: Skewed Views -- and Selective Admissions 159 -- JOHN G. RAMSAY -- -- -- -- -- 9. On Publicity, Poverty, and Transformation: -- Images and Recruitment in Teacher Education Brochures 179 -- GLENN M. HUDAK -- -- Part 3: Exploring Identity and Difference in the Context -- of Higher Education 195 -- -- 10. "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" Lesbian Professors -- in Popular Culture 197 -- ALLISON J. KELAHER YOUNG -- 11. Mamet's Oleanna in Context: Performance, -- Personal, Pedagogy 217 -- LEE PAPA -- 12. Vampires on Campus: Reflections on (Un)Death, -- Transformation, and Blood Knowledges in The Addiction 231 -- MORNA McDERMOTT AND TOBY DASPIT -- 13. Black Higher Learnin': Black Popular Culture -- and The Politics of Higher Education 247 -- LINWOOD H. COUSINS -- -- Contributors 267 -- -- Index 271 |
| Summary |
The essays in this book examine various representations of higher education in popular culture. Claiming that "higher education represents a crossroads of our social and political landscape," the editors stress the importance of popular media in determining the status and purpose of the academy. In their treatments of film, literature, television, music, and the Internet, the essays collected offer a wide array of perspectives on the role of higher education in the popular imagination |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Education in popular culture -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Education, Higher -- United States -- Marketing.
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Education, Higher -- United States -- Public opinion.
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Public opinion -- United States.
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| Author |
Edgerton, Susan Huddleston, 1955-
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| LC no. |
2004009275 |
| ISBN |
0415929369 hardback |
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0415929377 paperback |
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