| Description |
1 online resource (259 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Personal Professor and the Excellent University; 2. Picturing Institutions: Intellectual Work as Gift and Commodity in Good Will Hunting; 3. Education for Fun and Profit: Traditions of Popular College Fiction in the United States, 1875-1945; 4. Those Happy Golden Years: Beverly Hills, 90210, College Style; 5. Rap (in) the Academy: Academic Work, Education, and Cultural Studies; 6. Selling the Dream of Higher Education: Marketing Images of University Life |
| Summary |
The essays in this book examine various representations of higher education in popular culture. Claiming that "higher education represents a crossroads of our social and political landscape," the editors stress the importance of popular media in determining the status and purpose of the academy. In their treatments of film, literature, television, music, and the Internet, the essays collected offer a wide array of perspectives on the role of higher education in the popular imagination |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Education in popular culture -- United States
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Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States
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Education, Higher -- United States -- Marketing
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Education, Higher -- United States -- Public opinion
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Public opinion -- United States
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Education, Higher -- Marketing
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Education, Higher -- Public opinion
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Education, Higher -- Social aspects
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Education in popular culture
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Public opinion
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Edgerton, Susan
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Daspit, Toby
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| ISBN |
9780203465530 |
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0203465539 |
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9780203112908 |
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0203112903 |
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