Anti-Intellectual Representations of American Colleges and Universities
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Anti-Intellectual Representations of American Colleges and Universities

Fictional Higher Education

  1. 217 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Anti-Intellectual Representations of American Colleges and Universities

Fictional Higher Education

About this book

This book explores popular media depictions of higher education from an American perspective. Each chapter in this book investigates the portrait of higher education in an exciting array of media including novels, television, film, comic books, and video games revealing the ways anti-intellectualism manifests through time. Examining a wide range of narratives, the authors in this book provide incisive commentary on the role of the university as well as the life of students, faculty, and staff in fictional college campuses.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781137570031
eBook ISBN
9781137570048
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Higher Education

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Contents
  3. List of Contributors
  4. List of Tables
  5. Chapter 1: Cultivating Anti-intellectualism in the Fictional University
  6. Chapter 2: Humor in Academic Fiction: From Subtle Satire to LMAO
  7. Chapter 3: From Superman to Squirrel Girl: Higher Education in Comic Books, 1938–2015
  8. Chapter 4: Video Games and Anti-intellectualism: Higher Education in Modern Video Games
  9. Chapter 5: The Prism of Hollywood: Depictions of Racial Diversity in College Films
  10. Chapter 6: Titillation, Murder, and Romance: Hollywood’s Objectification of Women College Students
  11. Chapter 7: Developing a Bad Reputation: The Emergence of Student Affairs in College Novels
  12. Chapter 8: Behind Their Books: Faculty, Social Values, and the Symbol of the Book in American Film, 1930–1950
  13. Chapter 9: Anti-intellectualism and Faculty: Representations of the Prime-Time Professoriate
  14. Chapter 10: Concluding Thoughts on Media Representations of Higher Education: Anti-­intellectualism and Other Themes
  15. Refernces
  16. Index

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