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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of Contents 1 Unseen Universities and Seen Academics – An IntroductionMarcus Harmes and Richard Scully
2 Absurdism and Entanglement as an Academic Parallel in Terry Pratchett’s “Unseen University”Victoria Hawco
3 A Well-Rounded Dick? Academia in 3rd Rock from the SunMelissa Beattie
4 “I’m a doctor of many things”: Tracking the Doctor’s Relationship to Traditional Pedagogic Models of Knowledge Creation across Doctor WhoCatriona Mills
5 “Do what you like with him”: Sherlock Homes’ academic training and how it changed over timeJochem Kotthaus
6 Women in the Ivory Tower: Historical Memory and the Heroic Educator in Mona Lisa Smile (2003)Ana Stevenson
7 Gods and Monsters in the Ruined University: Filmic Teachers and their Moral Pedagogies from The Faculty to Higher LearningSusan Hopkins
8 A Different Sort of Monster: Science Fiction Casts a Spotlight on the Problematic Power Dynamics of Graduate ProgramsKristine Larsen
9 Dystopian Higher Education: A Neoliberal LegacyStacy W. Maddern
10 Dark Comedies/Dark Universities: Negotiating the Neoliberal Institution in British Satirical Comedies The History Man (1981), A Very Peculiar Practice (1986-1988) and Campus (2011)Bethan Michael-Fox and Kay Calver
11 A Doctor Who Academy for Dystopian TimesRobin Redmon Wright
12 ConclusionsMarcus Harmes and Richard Scully
