Research Catalog

Title

The Hollywood curriculum : teachers and teaching in the movies / Mary M. Dalton.

Author

Dalton, Mary M., 1962-

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, c1999.

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Details

Description

117 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• "Fifty-eight motion pictures distributed widely in the United States over the past sixty years are analyzed to construct a theory of curriculum in the movies grounded in cultural studies and critical pedagogy.
• Interrogating the "Hollywood Curriculum" is to ask what it means as a culture to be responsive at both social and personal levels and to engage these films as both entertaining and potentially transformative."--Jacket.
• The social curriculum of Hollywood implicit in popular films is based on individual rather than collective action and relies on that carefully plotted action rather than meaningful struggle to ensure the ultimate outcome leaving educational institutions, which represent the larger status quo, intact and in power.

Series Statement

Counterpoints ; v. 51

Uniform Title

Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.); v. 51.

Subject

• Curriculum evaluation
• Education in motion pictures
• Teachers in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Filmography: p. [107]-108.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-113) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. The Hollywood Model: Who Is the "Good" Teacher? -- 3. The Aesthetic-Ethical-Political Value Frameworks of "Good" Teachers in the Movies -- 4. The Technical-Scientific Value Frameworks of "Bad" Teachers in the Movies -- 5. Divided Lives: The Public Work and Private Pathos of Women Teachers in the Movies -- 6. Student Voices.

ISBN

0820437328 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96054029^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library