- 225 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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Kevin Costner, America's Teacher
About this book
Kevin Costner: America's Teacher examines the role of Costner in educational settings domestically and abroad. Costner's career over the past 35 years has seen ups and downs: his movies grossed 2 billion dollars in ticket sales worldwide and he has he won/been nominated for several Academy Awards but he also experienced critical and box office failures. Through the films in his oeuvre, Costner has been teaching audiences around the world about the United States--its history, people and culture. Some viewers and scholars recognize this as positive, others as problematic. This book serves as a place for teachers and scholars to explore ways in which Costner may be tapped for research and teaching purposes at all levels of education. It is organized around three large themes: Costner's baseball films and their connection to Americana; Costner's films through the more critical lenses of gender and new western scholarship; and Costner's teaching of teachers, the pedagogical possibilities of his work.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Kevin Costner and America’s Game: Part I
- Chapter 1: Candlesticks Make a Nice Gift: The Baseball Films of Kevin Costner
- Chapter 2: Heaven or Iowa? : Field of Dreams and Public Understanding of America’s Pastime
- Part II: Kevin Costner and Sex, Gender, and the New West: Part II
- Chapter 3: Black Women’s Lives Matter: Revisiting The Bodyguard Thirty Years Later
- Chapter 4: Performing the Rugged Patriarch: Yellowstone’s Commemoration of the American Monomyth
- Chapter 5: “This is America. We Don’t Share Land Here.” : Kevin Costner, Taylor Sheridan, and Remediating New/Post-West(ern) Scholarship in Yellowstone
- Part III: The Pedagogical Possibilities of Kevin Costner: Part III
- Chapter 6: Kevin Costner the Wise Teacher: Thirteen Days and Four Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Chapter 7: Intentional Focus on Integrated STEM: Was Costner the Original STEM Influencer?
- Chapter 8: Resilience and Asset Framing: The Lessons of McFarland, USA
- Afterword
- Index
- About the Contributors
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