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  • The Female Teacher on Television

    Shifting Stereotypes on the Small Screen

    by Dr. Elizabeth Currin, Dr. Pierrette Dagg, Dr. Robert Dahlgren, Leah Day, Dr. Mary Dalton, Jake Gates, Dr. Adam Grunzke, Andrew L. Grunzke, Rebecca Z. Grunzke, Edward Janak1, Dr. Melanie Janzen2, Cathy Leogrande3, Christie Petersen4, Dr. Patrick A. Ryan5, Ludovic A. Sourdot6, Dr. Abigail Stebbins7, Dr. Stephanie Schroeder8, Dr. Melissa Stanley9 ...
    Series series Education and Popular Culture
    This edited volume examines the ways in which the representation of female teachers on television has developed from the advent of the medium up to the present day. Despite the widely feminized nature of the teaching profession, the first depictions of female teachers on television did not occur until over a century later. Contributors analyze a variety of programs spanning time periods, audiences ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Kevin Costner, America's Teacher

    by Edward Janak, Ludovic A. Sourdot, Jerry Ausburn, Mike Borowczak, Andrea C. Burrows, Michelle Chamberlin, William Gombash, Andrew Grunzke, Bradley W. Hart0, Dennis R. Hart1, Tatiana Konrad2, Cathy Leogrande3, Chandra A. Maldonado4, Ashley A. Mattheis5, Pawel Pyrka6, Stefan Rabitsch7 ...
    Series series Education and Popular Culture
    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 ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Stories of Sports

    Critical Literacy in Media Production, Consumption, and Dissemination

    by Katherin Garland, Katie Shepherd Dredger, Crystal L. Beach, Cathy Leogrande, Limarys Caraballo, Mark A. Fabrizi, Mark Lewis0, Cynthia Martin1, J. Patrick McGrail2, Alicja Rieger3, Brian Sheehy4, Luke Rodesiler6, Richard Beach7, Alan Brown8, Ewa McGrail9 ...
    Stories of Sports: Critical Literacy in Media Production, Consumption, and Dissemination discusses how media demonstrates privilege, policing, stereotypes, confirmation bias, and objectification in a world where the role of athletics in Western society speaks to privilege and power. Contributors use a critical media lens to analyze texts, including newspapers, magazines, film, television, social ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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  • The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle

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  • Making Media Matter

    Critical Literacy, Popular Culture, and Creative Production

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  • Middlemen

    Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction

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    Reality TV and History

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    Women, Politics, and Popular Culture

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    "Provocative and diverse" essays on the image—and the reality—of feminism in the twenty-first century (Christine A. Kelly, author of Tangled Up in Red, White, and Blue).No matter what brand of feminism one may subscribe to, one thing is indisputable: the role of women in society during the past several decades has changed dramatically, and continues to change in a variety of ways. In You've Come a ... Read more

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