Hollywood Goes to High School Cinema, Schools, and American Culture

Name: Hollywood Goes to High School Cinema, Schools, and American Culture
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ISBN: 9780716755418

ISBN-10: 0716755416

ISBN-13: 9780716755418

Edition: 2006

Authors: Robert C. Bulman

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Hollywood Goes to High School explores the high school film genre and American culture at large. In this brief supplemental book, Robert Bulman 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. By looking at this genre as more than just entertainment, Bulman shows how these films reflect American attitudes toward education, social class, and adolescence. Hollywood Goes to High School can be incorporated into a variety of courses in sociology, education, history, anthropology, American studies, and film studies.

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Worth Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/27/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 191
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.89" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface



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 Yourself in the 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