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Hollywood goes to high school : cinema, schools, and American culture / Robert C. Bulman.
- Title
- Hollywood goes to high school : cinema, schools, and American culture / Robert C. Bulman.
- Author
- Bulman, Robert C.
- Publication
- New York : Worth Pub., c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PN1995.9.S253 B85 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 191 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Separates high school films into three analytical categories and explores how they reflect America's preoccupation with individualism and its ambivalent feelings about wealth and inequality.
- Series Statement
- Contemporary social issues
- Uniform Title
- Contemporary social issues (New York, N.Y.)
- Alternative Title
- Cinema, schools, and American culture
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-182) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Using the movies to make sense of society : a sociological introduction -- Middle-class individualism and the adolescent frontier : what high school films reveal about American culture -- Fighting the culture of poverty : the teacher as the urban school cowboy -- Expressing oneself in a culture of conformity : contradictions in suburban school cinema -- Challenging the culture of privilege : class conflict in the private school film -- Cinematic study abroad : high school films in comparative perspective -- Film fantasies as cultural myths : applying the sociological imagination.
- ISBN
- 0716755416 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2005297962
- 9780716755418
- OCLC
- 57826390
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library