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1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) |
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Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture |
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Palgrave studies in science and popular culture.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Unseen Universities and Seen Academics: An Introduction -- Academia: History and Emergence into Fiction -- Stereotypes and Realities -- Being Academic: Life Learns from Art -- Types of Academia -- Spoiler Alert: Overview of the Volume -- Chapter 2: Absurdism and Entanglement as an Academic Parallel in Terry Pratchett's "Unseen University" -- Unseen University: Architecture and Absurdity -- Satirizing the Academy in Unseen University -- Pedagogy at Unseen University |
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Reading Unseen University into the Real World: Decoloniality and Critical Approaches to Pedagogy -- An Ecology of Knowledge -- Absurdity and Entanglement: What Now? -- Chapter 3: A Well-Rounded Dick? Academia in 3rd Rock from the Sun -- Humanities and "STEM" -- Gender in Academia -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: "I Am a Doctor of Many Things": Tracking the Doctor's Relationship to the Academy Across Doctor Who -- "Doctor of Many Things" -- Absence -- Ambivalence -- Acceptance -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: "Do What You Like with Him": Sherlock Holmes' Academic Training and How It Changed over Time |
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Adapting Sherlock Holmes -- Victorian Beginnings and Frontier Science -- Midlife Crisis: A Parody, but Not a Parody -- The Golden Age of Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Women in the Ivory Tower: Historical Memory and the Heroic Educator in Mona Lisa Smile (2003) -- Wellesley College and Women's Higher Education -- Historical Memory of Women in the Ivory Tower -- Teacher Centrality, Pedagogy, and Pastoral Care -- Conclusion: "The Lady with the Mystic Smile" |
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Chapter 7: Gods and Monsters in the Ruined University: Filmic Teachers and Their Moral Pedagogies from The Faculty to Higher Learning -- Playing God: Fantasy Versus Reality -- Pain as Pedagogy: Marathon Man (1976) and Professor Bisenthal's Seminar -- Sage and Savant? Good Will Hunting (1997) and the Myth of the Natural Genius -- The Harassed Professor: From Gross Misconduct (1993) to Cheat (2018) -- Monstrous Teachers: From The Faculty (1998) to Bad Teacher (2011) -- Oxford Dreaming and the Classed University: Class (1983), Oxford Blues (1984) and The Riot Club (2014) |
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Conclusions: Good-Bye, Professor Bisenthal -- Chapter 8: A Different Sort of Monster: Science Fiction Casts a Spotlight on the Problematic Power Dynamics of Graduate Programs -- The Chair (2021) and Power Relationships in the Academy -- Mentors and Menaces in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park (1993) and Timeline (1999) -- Fraternizing in the Field: Legion of the Dead (2005) and Magma (2006) -- Hard Physics and Hook-Ups -- Identifying the Monster -- Chapter 9: Dystopian Higher Education: A Neoliberal Legacy -- The Neoliberal Past -- An Unlucky Category |
| Summary |
This edited volume focuses on the cultural production of knowledge in the academy as mediated or presented through film and television. This focus invites scrutiny of how the academy itself is viewed in popular culture from The Chair to Terry Pratchett's Unseen University and Doctor Who's Time Lord Academy among others. Spanning a number of genres and key film and television series, the volume is also inherently interdisciplinary with perspectives from History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, STEM, and more. This collection brings together leading experts in different disciplines and from different national backgrounds. It emphasises that even at a point of mass, global participation in higher education, the academy is still largely mediated by popular culture and understood through the tropes perpetuated via a multimedia landscape. Dr Richard Scully, BA (Hons), PhD (Monash), FRHistS is Associate Professor in Modern History at the University of New England, Australia. His research focuses on the history of cartoons, caricature, and graphic satire. He has co-edited four collections of essays, including two volumes on Australias migrant and minority press for Palgrave Macmillan. Professor Marcus Harmes is Associate Director Research at the University of Southern Queensland College, Australia, and teaches legal history in the law degree. He has published extensively in the fields of religious and political history, with a particular emphasis on British religious history and constitutional history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 22, 2023) |
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Education in popular culture.
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Educational anthropology.
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Education, Higher, in literature.
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Education, Higher -- Social aspects
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Education, Higher, in literature
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Education, Higher -- Social aspects
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Education in popular culture
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Educational anthropology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harmes, Marcus K., editor.
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Scully, Richard, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031323508 |
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3031323505 |
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