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[ecrea] New Book - The British School Film

Tue Oct 25 14:17:38 GMT 2016





*THE BRITISH SCHOOL FILM: From Tom Brown to Harry Potter*

Representations of Secondary Education in British Cinema

By Stephen Glynn

About the book:

Through a close analysis of British feature films spanning a century, this book explores how pupils, teachers and secondary education in general have been represented on the British cinema screen. The author addresses a number of topics including the nature of public (fee-paying) and state schooling; the values of special, single-sex and co-education; the role of male and female teachers; and the nature of childhood and adolescence itself. From the silents of Hitchcock to the sorcery of Harry Potter, British cinema’s continued exploration of school life highlights its importance in the nation’s everyday experience and imaginary landscape. Beyond this, the school film, varying in scope from low-budget exploitation to Hollywood-financed blockbusters, serves both as a prism through which one can trace major shifts in the British film industry and as a barometer of the social and cultural concerns of the cinema-going public. This applies especially for gender, race and, in all senses, class.

Further details available from the Palgrave Macmillan website:

http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137558862#aboutBook

Whether or not your own education resembles /St. Trinian’s/or /Kes/, /If…./or /The Fallling/, a chance to revisit – and re-evaluate - your teenage years?


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