Imagining the Academy: Higher Education and Popular Culture

by Edgerton; Susan H

• ISBN13: 9780415929363
• ISBN10: 0415929369
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

Examining representations of university life in film, literature, television, music, and on the Internet,Imagining the Academyinterrogates the tension between how academia appears in popular media and how it is experienced by today's academics. FromBeverlyHills, 90210to televised commercials for vocational institutes, the editors consider varied depictions of higher education as "a crossroads of our social and political landscape." This important collection stresses the powerful role of popular media in determining the status and purpose of the academy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Dreaming the Academy	1	(14)
SUSAN EDGERTON AND PAUL FARBER
Part 1: Constructing and Contesting the Image of the Ivory Tower	15	(100)
1. The Personal Professor and the Excellent University	17	(22)
SUSAN TALBURT AND PAULA M. SALVIO
2. Picturing Institutions: Intellectual Work as Gift and Commodity in Good Will Hunting	39	(12)
JO KEROES
3. Education for Fun and Profit: Traditions of Popular College Fiction in the United States, 1875-1945	51	(16)
SUSAN IKENBERRY
4. Those Happy Golden Years: Beverly Hills, 90210, College Style	67	(22)
MICHELE BYERS
5. Rap (in) the Academy: Academic Work, Education, and Cultural Studies	89	(28)
TOBY DASPIT AND JOHN A. WEAVER
Part 2: The New Vocationalism and the Marketing of Higher Education	115	(80)
6. Selling the Dream of Higher Education: Marketing Images of University Life	117	(14)
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	131	(28)
KAREN ANIJAR
8. "Meritocracy" at Middle Age: Skewed Views and Selective Admissions	159	(20)
JOHN G. RAMSAY
9. On Publicity, Poverty, and Transformation: Images and Recruitment in Teacher Education Brochures	179	(16)
GLENN M. HUDAK
Part 3: Exploring Identity and Difference in the Context of Higher Education	195	(72)
10. "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" Lesbian Professors in Popular Culture	197	(20)
ALLISON J. KELAHER YOUNG
11. Mamet's Oleanna in Context: Performance, Personal, Pedagogy	217	(14)
LEE PAPA
12. Vampires on Campus: Reflections on (Un)Death, Transformation, and Blood Knowledges in The Addiction	231	(16)
MORNA McDERMOTT AND TOBY DASPIT
13. Black Higher Learnin': Black Popular Culture and The Politics of Higher Education	247	(20)
LINWOOD H. COUSINS
Contributors	267	(4)
Index	271