Author Description

The Essays In This Book Examine Various Forms Of Popular Culture In The Us And The Ways In Which They Represent, Shape, And Are Considered By Notions About And Issues Within Higher Education. From An Exploration Of Rap Music To An Analysis Of How The Academy Presents And Markets Itself On The World Wide Web, This Book Focuses Attention On Higher Education Issues That Are Bound Up In The Workings And Effects Of Popular Culture. Cover -- Imagining The Academy: Higher Education And Popular Culture -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Dreaming The Academy -- 1 Constructing And Contesting The Image Of The Ivory Tower -- 1 The Personal Professor And The Excellent University -- 2 Picturing Institutions: Intellectual Work As Gift And Commodity In Good Will Hunting -- 3 Education For Fun And Profit: Traditions Of Popular College Fiction In The United States, 1875-1945 -- 4 Those Happy Golden Years: Beverly Hills, 90210, College Style -- 5 Rap (in) The Academy: Academic Work,education, And Cultural Studies -- 2 The New Vocationalism And The Marketing Of Higher Education -- 6 Selling The Dream Of Higher Education: Marketing Images Of University Life -- 7 In Just Six Short Weeks,you Too Can Be A Truck Driver, A Teacher, Or A Preacher... A Doctor, Lawyer,... Or Engineer -- 8 Meritocracy At Middle Age: Skewed Views And Selective Admissions -- 9 On Publicity,poverty, And Transformation: Images And Recruitment In Teacher Education Brochures -- 3 Exploring Identity And Difference In The Context Of Higher Education -- 10 Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Lesbian Professors In Popular Culture -- 11 Mamet's Oleanna In Context: Performance,personal,pedagogy -- 12 Vampires On Campus: Reflections On (un)death,transformation, And Blood Knowledges In The Addiction -- 13 Black Higher Learnin': Black Popular Culture And The Politics Of Higher Education -- Contributors -- Index.