TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edgerton,Susan Huddleston
TI  - Imagining the academy: higher education and popular culture 
SN  - 0415929369
AV  - LC191.94 .I53 2005
U1  - 306.432 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - RoutledgeFalmer
KW  - Education in popular culture
KW  - United States
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Marketing
KW  - Public opinion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : dreaming the academy; Susan Edgerton and Paul Farber --; 1; The personal professor and the excellent university; Susan Talburt and Paula M. Salvio --; 2; Picturing institutions : intellectual work as gift and commodity in Good Will Hunting; Jo Keroes --; 3; Education for fun and profit : traditions of popular college fiction in the United States, 1875-1945; Susan Ikenberry --; 4; Those happy golden years : Beverly Hills, 90210, college style; Michele Byers --; 5; Rap (in) the academy : academic work, education, and cultural studies; Toby Daspit and John A. Weaver --; 6; Selling the dream of higher education : marketing images of university life; Paul Farber and Gunilla Holm --; 7; In just six short weeks, you too can be a truck driver, a teacher, or a preacher...a doctor, lawyer...or engineer; Karen Anijar --; 8; "Meritocracy" at middle age : skewed views and selective admissions; John G. Ramsay --; 9; On publicity, poverty, and transformation : images and recruitment in teacher education brochures; Glenn M. Hudak --; 10; "Should I stay or should I go?" : lesbian professors in popular culture; Allison J. Kelaher Young --; 11; Mamet's Oleanna in context : performance, personal, pedagogy; Lee Papa --; 12; Vampires on campus : reflections on (un)death, transformation, and blood knowledges in The addiction; Morna McDermott and Toby Daspit --; 13; Black higher learnin' : black popular culture and the politics of higher education; Linwood H. Cousins
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