Academia and Higher Learning in Popular Culture / Marcus K. Harmes, Richard Scully, editors.
Harmes, Marcus K., editor.; Scully, Richard, editor.
2023
LC191 .A23 2023
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Title
Academia and Higher Learning in Popular Culture / Marcus K. Harmes, Richard Scully, editors.
ISBN
9783031323508 electronic book
3031323505 electronic book
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32350-8
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
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English
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1 online resource (xii, 273 pages).
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10.1007/978-3-031-32350-8 doi
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LC191 .A23 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.43
Summary
This edited volume focuses on the cultural production of knowledge in the academy as mediated or presented through film and television. This focus invites scrutiny of how the academy itself is viewed in popular culture from The Chair to Terry Pratchett's Unseen University and Doctor Who's Time Lord Academy among others. Spanning a number of genres and key film and television series, the volume is also inherently interdisciplinary with perspectives from History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, STEM, and more. This collection brings together leading experts in different disciplines and from different national backgrounds. It emphasises that even at a point of mass, global participation in higher education, the academy is still largely mediated by popular culture and understood through the tropes perpetuated via a multimedia landscape. Dr Richard Scully, BA (Hons), PhD (Monash), FRHistS is Associate Professor in Modern History at the University of New England, Australia. His research focuses on the history of cartoons, caricature, and graphic satire. He has co-edited four collections of essays, including two volumes on Australias migrant and minority press for Palgrave Macmillan. Professor Marcus Harmes is Associate Director Research at the University of Southern Queensland College, Australia, and teaches legal history in the law degree. He has published extensively in the fields of religious and political history, with a particular emphasis on British religious history and constitutional history.
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Harmes, Marcus K., editor.
Scully, Richard, editor.
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Palgrave studies in science and popular culture.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Unseen Universities and Seen Academics: An Introduction
Academia: History and Emergence into Fiction
Stereotypes and Realities
Being Academic: Life Learns from Art
Types of Academia
Spoiler Alert: Overview of the Volume
Chapter 2: Absurdism and Entanglement as an Academic Parallel in Terry Pratchett's "Unseen University"
Unseen University: Architecture and Absurdity
Satirizing the Academy in Unseen University
Pedagogy at Unseen University

Reading Unseen University into the Real World: Decoloniality and Critical Approaches to Pedagogy
An Ecology of Knowledge
Absurdity and Entanglement: What Now?
Chapter 3: A Well-Rounded Dick? Academia in 3rd Rock from the Sun
Humanities and "STEM"
Gender in Academia
Conclusion
Chapter 4: "I Am a Doctor of Many Things": Tracking the Doctor's Relationship to the Academy Across Doctor Who
"Doctor of Many Things"
Absence
Ambivalence
Acceptance
Conclusion
Chapter 5: "Do What You Like with Him": Sherlock Holmes' Academic Training and How It Changed over Time

Adapting Sherlock Holmes
Victorian Beginnings and Frontier Science
Midlife Crisis: A Parody, but Not a Parody
The Golden Age of Knowledge
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Women in the Ivory Tower: Historical Memory and the Heroic Educator in Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Wellesley College and Women's Higher Education
Historical Memory of Women in the Ivory Tower
Teacher Centrality, Pedagogy, and Pastoral Care
Conclusion: "The Lady with the Mystic Smile"

Chapter 7: Gods and Monsters in the Ruined University: Filmic Teachers and Their Moral Pedagogies from The Faculty to Higher Learning
Playing God: Fantasy Versus Reality
Pain as Pedagogy: Marathon Man (1976) and Professor Bisenthal's Seminar
Sage and Savant? Good Will Hunting (1997) and the Myth of the Natural Genius
The Harassed Professor: From Gross Misconduct (1993) to Cheat (2018)
Monstrous Teachers: From The Faculty (1998) to Bad Teacher (2011)
Oxford Dreaming and the Classed University: Class (1983), Oxford Blues (1984) and The Riot Club (2014)

Conclusions: Good-Bye, Professor Bisenthal
Chapter 8: A Different Sort of Monster: Science Fiction Casts a Spotlight on the Problematic Power Dynamics of Graduate Programs
The Chair (2021) and Power Relationships in the Academy
Mentors and Menaces in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park (1993) and Timeline (1999)
Fraternizing in the Field: Legion of the Dead (2005) and Magma (2006)
Hard Physics and Hook-Ups
Identifying the Monster
Chapter 9: Dystopian Higher Education: A Neoliberal Legacy
The Neoliberal Past
An Unlucky Category

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