The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies by Mary M. Dalton
By Mary M. Dalton
This e-book analyzes 116 movies dispensed in the course of the usa over approximately seventy five years, to build a idea, grounded in cultural reports and important pedagogy, of curriculum within the videos. The portrayal of lecturers in well known movies relies on person, instead of collective, motion and is determined by codes validated by means of inventory characters and predictable plots, precluding significant fight. those conventions make sure the final consequence of the display narratives and ordinarily go away the tutorial associations – which symbolize the bigger establishment – intact and robust. as well as an multiplied record of movies informing the research, this revised version beneficial properties new chapters: one on homosexual lecturers in fresh movies and one other on principals within the videos. To interrogate «the Hollywood curriculum» is to invite what it skill as a tradition to be aware of motion pictures at either social and private degrees, and to have interaction those movies as either wonderful and in all likelihood remodeling.
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Are we likely to see many of the teachers projected on the big screen at the local cinema or transmitted to the smaller screens in our own homes engage in praxis? No. Just as real teachers feel the tug of their personal compassion for and obligation to students being countered by the need to maintain their positions of authority in the school hierarchy, real movie writers and directors are torn between realizing their artistic or political vision and producing a “product” that studios know how to market and audiences find familiar enough to buy.
In Mr. Holland’s Opus, the title character views teaching as a temporary gig. Dalton v-x-081 12/8/03 11:06 AM Page 27 Who Is the “Good” Teacher? | 27 Mr. Holland, played by Richard Dreyfuss, sees himself as a musician and composer although he will ultimately spend thirty years as a high school music teacher. ” Similarly, Meryl Streep’s depiction of Roberta Guaspari in the Hollywood biopic Music of the Heart evokes a woman who turns to teaching violin in several inner-city schools after her marriage falls apart and she needs to both find an outlet for her time and a way to support her two sons.
Jaime Escalante, played by Edward James Olmos, has given up a lucrative job in industry to teach barrio kids in Stand and Deliver, a true story. LouAnne Johnson’s book about her teaching experiences has come to the screen as Dangerous Minds, a film starring Michelle Pfeiffer. In this film Pfeiffer plays Johnson, an ex-Marine hired to teach English in a special program for bright but “difficult” kids before she has actually earned her teaching certification. In Conrack, based on Pat Conroy’s memoir The Water Is Wide, Jon Voight stars as a white, liberal teacher sent to fill in at a poor, all-black school on an island off the coast of South Carolina.