Imagining the Academy: Higher Education and Popular Culture

✍ Scribed by Susan H Edgerton, Gunilla Holm, Toby Daspit, Paul Farber

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 259
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The essays in this book examine various forms of popular culture and the ways in which they represent, shape, and are constrained by notions about and issues within higher education. From an exploration of rap music to an analysis of how the academy presents and markets itself on the World Wide Web, the essays focus attention on higher education issues that are bound up in the workings and effects of popular culture.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 11
1. The Personal Professor and the Excellent University......Page 24
2. Picturing Institutions: Intellectual Work as Gift and Commodity in Good Will Hunting......Page 41
3. Education for Fun and Profit: Traditions of Popular College Fiction in the United States, 1875-1945......Page 51
4. Those Happy Golden Years: Beverly Hills, 90210, College Style......Page 64
5. Rap (in) the Academy: Academic Work, Education, and Cultural Studies......Page 82
6. Selling the Dream of Higher Education: Marketing Images of University Life......Page 107
7. In Just Six Short Weeks, You Too Can Be a Truck Driver, a Teacher, or a Preacher…a Doctor, Lawyer,…or Engineer......Page 118
8. “Meritocracy” at Middle Age: Skewed Views and Selective Admissions......Page 143
9. On Publicity, Poverty, and Transformation: Images and Recruitment in Teacher Education Brochures......Page 159
10. “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” Lesbian Professors in Popular Culture......Page 173
11. Mamet’s Oleanna in Context: Performance, Personal, Pedagogy......Page 189
12. Vampires on Campus: Reflections on (Un)Death, Transformation, and Blood Knowledges in The Addiction......Page 200
13. Black Higher Learnin’: Black Popular Culture and The Politics of Higher Education......Page 214
Contributors......Page 231
Index......Page 234