Hollywood goes to high school
Subtitle: cinema, schools, and American culture
By: Robert C. Bulman.
Series: Contemporary social issues; Contemporary social issues (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Worth Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Schools in motion pictures; Youth in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States
Other titles: Cinema, schools, and American culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-182) and index.
Table of contents: title: Using the movies to make sense of society : a sociological introduction; title: Middle-class individualism and the adolescent frontier : what high school films reveal about American culture; title: Fighting the culture of poverty : the teacher as the urban school cowboy; title: Expressing oneself in a culture of conformity : contradictions in suburban school cinema; title: Challenging the culture of privilege : class conflict in the private school film; title: Cinematic study abroad : high school films in comparative perspective; title: Film fantasies as cultural myths : applying the sociological imagination.