Fifty-eight motion pictures distributed widely in the United States over the past sixty years are analyzed to construct a theory of curriculum in the movies grounded in cultural studies and critical pedagogy. The social curriculum of Hollywood implicit in popular films is based on individual rather than collective action and relies on that carefully plotted action rather than meaningful struggle to ensure the ultimate outcome leaving educational institutions, which represent the larger status quo, intact and in power. Interrogating the «Hollywood Curriculum» is to ask what it means as a culture to be responsive at both social and personal levels and to engage these films as both entertaining and potentially transformative.
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978-0-8204-3732-3 (9780820437323)
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MARY M. DALTON is Professor of Communication and Film and Media Studies at Wake Forest University. She is the co-editor of Screen Lessons: What We Have Learned From Teachers on Television and in the Movies and of The Sitcom Reader: American Re-viewed, Still Skewed with Laura R. Linder. In addition to her scholarly work in the area of critical media studies, she is a documentary filmmaker and a media critic.
