Imagining the academy : higher education and popular culture /
edited by Susan Edgerton [and others].
- ix, 284 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : dreaming the academy / The personal professor and the excellent university / Picturing institutions : intellectual work as gift and commodity in Good Will Hunting / Education for fun and profit : traditions of popular college fiction in the United States, 1875-1945 / Those happy golden years : Beverly Hills, 90210, college style / Rap (in) the academy : academic work, education, and cultural studies / Selling the dream of higher education : marketing images of university life / In just six short weeks, you too can be a truck driver, a teacher, or a preacher...a doctor, lawyer...or engineer / "Meritocracy" at middle age : skewed views and selective admissions / On publicity, poverty, and transformation : images and recruitment in teacher education brochures / "Should I stay or should I go?" : lesbian professors in popular culture / Mamet's Oleanna in context : performance, personal, pedagogy / Vampires on campus : reflections on (un)death, transformation, and blood knowledges in The addiction / Black higher learnin' : black popular culture and the politics of higher education / Susan Edgerton and Paul Farber -- Susan Talburt and Paula M. Salvio -- Jo Keroes -- Susan Ikenberry -- Michele Byers -- Toby Daspit and John A. Weaver -- Paul Farber and Gunilla Holm -- Karen Anijar -- John G. Ramsay -- Glenn M. Hudak -- Allison J. Kelaher Young -- Lee Papa -- Morna McDermott and Toby Daspit -- Linwood H. Cousins. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
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