R. Chennault 
Hollywood Films about Schools: Where Race, Politics, and Education Intersect 

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.

Spis treści

Introduction Reagan, 'Rithmetic, and Race Controlling the Savage Enemy: Punishing the Other and Criminalizing Urban Space Isolating and Protecting Whiteness Brining the West to the Rest: The Transmittion of Civilizing Knowledge The Pedagogies of School Films and the Pedagogical Uses of School Films

O autorze

RONALD E. CHENNAULT is Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies and Research, De Paul University, USA.