Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-182) and index.
Contents:
Using the movies to make sense of society : a sociological introduction -- Middle-class individualism and the adolescent frontier : what high school films reveal about American culture -- Fighting the culture of poverty : the teacher as the urban school cowboy -- Expressing oneself in a culture of conformity : contradictions in suburban school cinema -- Challenging the culture of privilege : class conflict in the private school film -- Cinematic study abroad : high school films in comparative perspective -- Film fantasies as cultural myths : applying the sociological imagination.
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