Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9781433170164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 290 str.

Mary M. Dalton; Laura R. Linder

Opis

Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television, 2nd Edition examines some of the most influential teacher characters presented on television and attempts to "flip the script" to combat the cynicism of today's television narratives and the way those stories influence public perceptions of education in America.

Recenzje

"This book about media images of teachers offers a rare chance to reflect on a profession that touches all of us. These chapters give readers a critical look into the way educators and education have been portrayed on what is effectively one of our first teachers-television." -Naeemah Clark, co-author of Diversity in U.S. Mass Media

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Overview: Why TV? Why Teachers? - 1950s Gender Wars: Mister Peepers and Our Miss Brooks - 1960s Race and Social Relevancy: The Bill Cosby Show and Room 222 - 1970s Ideology and Social Class: Welcome Back, Kotter and The Paper Chase - 1980s Normalizing Meritocracy: The Facts of Life and Head of the Class - 1990s Gaining Ground from Margin to Center: Hangin' With Mr. Cooper and My So-Called Life - 2000s Embracing Multiculturalism: Boston Public and The Wire - The 2010s Downward Spiral: From Madame Secretary to Teachers - Afterword: Technology and Reclaiming the Teacher Narrative - Index.

O autorze

Mary M. Dalton is Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University, author of The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies (Third Revised Edition 2017), and a documentary filmmaker.

Laura R. Linder is a retired media arts professor, author of Public Access Television: America's Electronic Soapbox (1999), and co-editor (with Dalton) of The Sitcom Reader: America Re-viewed, Still Skewed (Second Edition 2016).