Breaking in to Movies - Giroux
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Breaking in to the Movies brings together Henry A. Giroux's best-known essays from the last twenty years, centering on important subjects on the cultural studies and pop culture agenda, including violence, race, class, gender, identity, politics, and children's culture. The volume charts his career as one of the most astute observers of the Hollywood tradition, from early reflections on Norma Rae and Looking for Mister Goodbar to ground-breaking analyses of more recent movies such as Pulp Fiction, Dead Poets Society, Dangerous Minds, and Fight Club. By addressing the profound pedagogical role…mehr

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Breaking in to the Movies brings together Henry A. Giroux's best-known essays from the last twenty years, centering on important subjects on the cultural studies and pop culture agenda, including violence, race, class, gender, identity, politics, and children's culture. The volume charts his career as one of the most astute observers of the Hollywood tradition, from early reflections on Norma Rae and Looking for Mister Goodbar to ground-breaking analyses of more recent movies such as Pulp Fiction, Dead Poets Society, Dangerous Minds, and Fight Club. By addressing the profound pedagogical role of film in contemporary society, Giroux demonstrates how it dramatically shapes the way young people come to terms with today's most charged social issues.
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Henry A. Giroux holds the Waterbury Chair Professorship and is currently the Director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies at Pennsylvania State University. His most recent books include Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture's War on Children (2001); Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies (2000); The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence (1999); and Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope (1997).
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"In this collection of essays, Henry Giroux demonstrates once againthat he is one of our leading public political intellectuals. Everypage is filled with the passion of his commitment both to socialand economic justice and to theoretical rigor. This collectioncombines insightful readings of how specific films operate in thecurrent social context and original reflections on the centraltheoretical and methodological issues facing cultural studiestoday. This is a book that will move both students andteachers."
--Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina atChapel Hill

"Henry Giroux is one of our most penetrating cultural critics.In Breaking in to the Movies, he demonstrates how pleasureand power, entertainment and public pedagogy, are alwaysintertwined in the culture of global capitalism. Giroux offers arefreshing approach in a field often characterized by a paucity ofintellectual imagination. This is real culturalcriticism."
--Sut Jhally, University of Massachusetts