Assessing film's unheralded--and unbridled--power as a "teaching machine," Breaking in to the Movies showcases Giroux's best-known film essays that address the profoundly pedagogical role film has come to play in contemporary culture.
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"In this collection of essays, Henry Giroux demonstrates once again that he is one of our leading public political intellectuals. Every page is filled with the passion of his commitment both to social and economic justice and to theoretical rigor. This collection combines insightful readings of how specific films operate in the current social context and original reflections on the central theoretical and methodological issues facing cultural studies today. This is a book that will move both students and teachers." Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Henry Giroux is one of our most penetrating cultural critics. In Breaking in to the Movies, he demonstrates how pleasure and power, entertainment and public pedagogy, are always intertwined in the culture of global capitalism. Giroux offers a refreshing approach in a field often characterized by a paucity of intellectual imagination. This is real cultural criticism." Sut Jhally, University of Massachusetts
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"In this collection of essays, Henry Giroux demonstrates once again that he is one of our leading public political intellectuals. Every page is filled with the passion of his commitment both to social and economic justice and to theoretical rigor. This collection combines insightful readings of how specific films operate in the current social context and original reflections on the central theoretical and methodological issues facing cultural studies today. This is a book that will move both students and teachers."
—Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
—Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Henry Giroux is one of our most penetrating cultural critics. In Breaking in to the Movies, he demonstrates how pleasure and power, entertainment and public pedagogy, are always intertwined in the culture of global capitalism. Giroux offers a refreshing approach in a field often characterized by a paucity of intellectual imagination. This is real cultural criticism."
—Sut Jhally, University of Massachusetts
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public pedagogy, border youth, public pedagogies, ritualistic violence, other cultural workers, fight club, cinematic violence, resurgent racism, critical educators, democratic public life, white panic, representational politics, pedagogical authority, pedagogical space, affective investments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Dangerous Minds, Norma Rae, Pulp Fiction, Dead Poets Society, University of Minnesota Press, Reservoir Dogs, The Lion King, Cultural Studies, Los Angeles, Stuart Hall, Swept Away, Larry Clark, Operation Mayhem, River's Edge, The Little Mermaid, Amy Taubin, Lawrence Grossberg, Natural Born Killers, Paul Gilroy, Quentin Tarantino, Antonio Gramsci, David Fincher, Holly Sklar New!
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New York, United States, Dangerous Minds, Norma Rae, Pulp Fiction, Dead Poets Society, University of Minnesota Press, Reservoir Dogs, The Lion King, Cultural Studies, Los Angeles, Stuart Hall, Swept Away, Larry Clark, Operation Mayhem, River's Edge, The Little Mermaid, Amy Taubin, Lawrence Grossberg, Natural Born Killers, Paul Gilroy, Quentin Tarantino, Antonio Gramsci, David Fincher, Holly Sklar New!
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- Cultural Studies: Volume 7, Issue 3 (Cultural Studies Journal) by Lawrence Grossberg on 4 pages
- Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence, and Youth by Henry A. Giroux on 4 pages
- Border Dialogues: Journeys in Postmodernity (A Comedia Book) by Iain Chambers on page 72, page 73, and page 99
- Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom (AFI Film Readers) by Eric Smoodin on page 131, page 132, and page 135
- The Lion King by Slate Plus Magic on page 131, and page 132
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- Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture by Jacqueline Jones Royster in Back Matter
- The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear by Henry A. Giroux in Front Matter
- Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth, and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Henry A. Giroux in Front Matter
- The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear by Henry A. Giroux in Front Matter
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