| Imagining the Academy: Higher Education and Popular Culture Contributor(s): Edgerton, Susan (Editor), Holm, Gunilla (Editor), Daspit, Toby (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415929369 ISBN-13: 9780415929363 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2004 Annotation: Examining representations of university life in film, literature, television, music, and on the Internet, "Imagining the Academy" interrogates the tension between how academia appears in popular media and how it is experienced by today's academics. From "Beverly" "Hills, 90210" to 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Higher - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.432 |
| LCCN: 2004009275 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.24" W x 9.26" (1.19 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |