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Reel Schools

Schooling and the Nation in Australian Cinema

by Josephine May (Author)
©2013 Monographs 285 Pages

Summary

Reel Schools takes a fresh look at the history of Australian schooling through the lens of Australian cinema from the silent era until 2010. In exploring the relationship between cinematic representation and educational history, Josephine May shows how numerous Australian feature and documentary films offer access to powerful vernacular imaginings about school education in Australia.
May argues that the cinematic school is a pervasive metaphor for the Australian nation. She demonstrates that, while Australian films about schooling have consistently commented on the relationship of schooling to the Australian class structure, they also increasingly explored gender, race and ethnicity at school, especially after the 1970s. From then on the egalitarian dream of school education and the nation’s capacity to generate meaningful futures for the young became increasingly contested.

Details

Pages
285
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783035104431
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034306324
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0351-0443-1
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (February)
Keywords
History of Education History of Culture and the Humanities The Media and Education Film Studies
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. X, 285 pp., 21 ill.

Biographical notes

Josephine May (Author)

Josephine May is Associate Professor (Teaching and Learning) and Deputy Director of the English Language and Foundation Studies Centre at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests include Australian educational history, enabling education, childhood and youth history, and history and film.

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