Hollywood's Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis

Nocella, Anthony J. (Editor)/ Van Heertum, Rich (Editor)/ Frymer, Benjamin (Editor)/ Kashani, Tony

ISBN 10: 0230621996 / ISBN 13: 9780230621992

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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256 pages. 8.46x5.68x0.84 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hollywood's Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230621996
• ISBN 13: 9780230621992
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

This book provides an interdisciplinary and collaborative anthology that seeks to make a compelling and exciting analysis of contemporary Hollywood film texts (and the larger industry and society to which they are dialectically related) in light of Giroux's ideas about public pedagogy. Foreword by Lawrence Grossberg.

About the Author

RICHARD VAN HEERTUM is Assistant Professor of Education at CUNY/College of Staten Island, USA, teaching classes in the education and history departments.
TONY KASHANI is Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies at College of San Mateo, USA, and Adjunct faculty member at Kaplan University, where he teaches Ethics.
ANTHONY J. NOCELLA, II is completing his doctoral work at Syracuse University, USA. He is a Visiting Scholar of SUNY Cortland's Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice (CEPS) and is teaching classes in Sociology and Criminology at Le Moyne College.
BENJAMIN FRYMER is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University, USA.