American Education in Popular Media: From the Blackboard to the Silver Screen

1. Popular Media Representations of American Schooling from the Past; Sevan G. Terzian and Patrick A. Ryan 2. The College Man in Popular Fiction: American Magazines and the Vision of the Middle-Class Man, 1890-1915; Daniel A. Clark 3. "A Touch of Risquity": Teachers, Perception, and Popular Culture in the Progressive Era; Michelle Morgan 4. "Spirit of Education": The Gendered Vision of Compulsory Schooling in Mass Magazine Art, 1908-1938; Heather A. Weaver 5. Chalk It Up To Experience: The Sacrificial Image of the Teacher in Popular Media, 1945-1959; Patrick A. Ryan 6. Fears on Film: Representations of Juvenile Delinquency in Educational Media in Mid-Twentieth Century America; Amy Martinelli 7. Students Without a Cause: Blackboard Jungle, High School Movies, and High School Life; Daniel Perlstein and Leah Faw 8. The Importance of Teaching Ernest: The Fool Goes Back to School in Television and Film Comedies in the Late Twentieth Century; Andrew L. Grunzke 9. Prosaic, Perfunctory Pedagogy: Representations of Social Studies Teachers and Teaching in 1970s and 1980s Movies; Robert L. Dahlgren 10. Looking at the Man in the Principal's Office; Kate Rousmaniere