[Commlist] Students On Screen - Special Issue of Open Screens (Vol 7:2) published

We are delighted to announce the publication of Volume 7 • Issue 2 • 
2025 • Students on Screen Special Issue
With guest editors Bethan Michael-Fox and Kay Calver

https://www.openscreensjournal.com/issue/881/info/

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CONTENTS

Foreword to the Special Issue
Rachel Brooks

Introduction to the Special Issue Students on Screen
Bethan Michael-Fox and Kay Calver

The Cinematologists present: Students on Screen
Neil Fox

Representations of students and educational institutions in the Netflix 
series Adolescence: a roundtable discussion
Kay Calver, Bethan Michael-Fox, Dr Oli Belas, Shelby Davies, Maisie 
Glazier and Josh Habimama

The Emergence of the Student in Colin in Black and White & Top Boy
Oli Belas

Revolting Youth: The Conflicted Representation of Students in Netflix’s 
The Chair
Mark Readman

Navigating Anxiety: The Multifaceted Representation of Students with 
Mental Health Conditions in Netflix’s The Healing Powers of Dude and Sex 
Education
Katie Brown and Meg Loveys

Young Female University Students and the Dark Economy of Higher 
Education in British Television Dramas Clique (2017) and Cheat (2019)
Kay Calver and Bethan Michael-Fox

‘100 Percent Selection Guaranteed’: Kota Factory and Its Portrayal of 
Shadow Education
Devaleena Kundu

Being Nick Von Sternberg: Critical Parodies of Film Students in 
Anglophone Cinema
Neil Fox

TV depictions of student life: A comparative study of the US TV show 
Greek and the British TV show Fresh Meat
Pauline J. Reynolds

Filmic figurations of the ‘non-traditional’ student: The pedagogical 
problems and possibilities of Educating Rita
Catherine (Cat) Mitchell and James Burford

Navigating Dark Academia: Student Identity, Nostalgia, and neo-Victorian 
Influences Online
Zoe Hope Bulaitis

A Gendered Understanding of School Shootings on Screen
Selina E M Kerr

Unravelling the Thread of Elegant Lies: The Depiction of Students and 
Teenage Bullying in South Korean Film
Myoung-Sun Song

School Spaces and Subjecthood in Netflix’s Baby
Julia Heim

The Pleasure of Prohibited Spaces – Playing School Student Characters in 
Video Games
Sharon Coleclough

Book Review: Constructing the Higher Education Student: Perspectives 
from across Europe by Rachel Brooks, Achala Gupta, Sazana Jayadeva, Anu 
Lainio, and Predrag Lažetić
Adam Chapman

Book Review: Mediated Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning on Screen by 
Mark Readman Symon Quy

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