Reel Education - Documentaries, Biopics, and Reality Television (Paperback, New edition)

Reel Education is the first single-authored book to bring together the theoretical and practical considerations of teaching cinematic texts about education that claim a degree of verisimilitude. Given the recent influx of documentaries, biopics, and reality television shows about education, new theoretical frameworks are required to understand how these productions shape public conversations about educational issues. Such texts, with their claims to represent real-life experiences, have a particular power to sway audiences who may uncritically accept these stories as offering "the truth" about what happens in schools. Since all texts, whatever their truth-claims may be, are grounded in specific ideologies, those in the fields of humanities, education, and media and communication studies must pay attention to how these films and television shows are constructed and for what purposes. This book provides an analysis of documentaries, biopics, and reality television, examining the construction of the genres, the explicit and latent ideologies they contain, and the ways in which students and faculty might critically engage with them in classrooms.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Minding the Media, 17
Release date:	August 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Jacqueline Bach
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	186
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-2915-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of a specific subject Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > Secondary schools > General
LSN:	1-4331-2915-9
Barcode:	9781433129155

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