did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780415929370

Imagining the Academy: Higher Education and Popular Culture

by ;
  • ISBN13:

    9780415929370

  • ISBN10:

    0415929377

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2004-11-01
  • Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
  • Write a Review Icon Write a Review
List Price: $65.95 Save up to $26.99
  • Rent Book $41.54
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    TERM
    PRICE
    DUE
    USUALLY SHIPS IN 3-5 BUSINESS DAYS
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

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
Paul Farber
Part 1: Constructing and Contesting the Image of the Ivory Tower
15(100)
The Personal Professor and the Excellent University
17(22)
Susan Talburt
Paula M. Salvio
Picturing Institutions: Intellectual Work as Gift and Commodity in Good Will Hunting
39(12)
Jo Keroes
Education for Fun and Profit: Traditions of Popular College Fiction in the United States, 1875--1945
51(16)
Susan Ikenberry
Those Happy Golden Years: Beverly Hills, 90210, College Style
67(22)
Michele Byers
Rap (in) the Academy: Academic Work, Education, and Cultural Studies
89(26)
Toby Daspit
John A. Weaver
Part 2: The New Vocationalism and the Marketing of Higher Education
115(80)
Selling the Dream of Higher Education: Marketing Images of University Life
117(14)
Paul Farber
Gunilla Holm
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
``Meritocracy'' at Middle Age: Skewed Views and Selective Admissions
159(20)
John G. Ramsay
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)
``Should I Stay or Should I Go?'' Lesbian Professors in Popular Culture
197(20)
Allison J. Kelaher Young
Mamet's Oleanna in Context: Performance, Personal, Pedagogy
217(14)
Lee Papa
Vampires on Campus: Reflections on (Un)Death, Transformation, and Blood Knowledges in The Addiction
231(16)
Morna McDermott
Toby Daspit
Black Higher Learnin': Black Popular Culture and The Politics of Higher Education
247(20)
Linwood H. Cousins
Contributors 267(4)
Index 271

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program