{"product_id":"kevin-costner-americas-teacher-9781793647863","title":"Kevin Costner, America's Teacher","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin Costner: America's Teacher examines the role of Costner in educational settings domestically and abroad. Costner’s career over the past 35 years has seen ups and downs: his movies grossed 2 billion dollars in ticket sales worldwide and he has he won\/been nominated for several Academy Awards but he also experienced critical and box office failures. Through the films in his oeuvre, Costner has been teaching audiences around the world about the United States--its history, people and culture. Some viewers and scholars recognize this as positive, others as problematic. This book serves as a place for teachers and scholars to explore ways in which Costner may be tapped for research and teaching purposes at all levels of education. It is organized around three large themes: Costner’s baseball films and their connection to Americana; Costner’s films through the more critical lenses of gender and new western scholarship; and Costner’s teaching of teachers, the pedagogical possibilities of his work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Grunzke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLudovic A. Sourdot and Edward Janak\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Kevin Costner and America’s Game\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: Candlesticks Make a Nice Gift: The Baseball Films of Kevin Costner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCathy Leogrande\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Heaven or Iowa? Field of Dreams and Public Understanding of America’s Pastime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBradley Hart and Dennis Hart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Kevin Costner and Sex, Gender, and the New West\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: Black Women’s Lives Matter: Revisiting The Bodyguard Thirty Years Later\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTatiana Prorokova-Konrad\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Performing the Rugged Patriarch: Yellowstone’s Commemoration of the American Monomyth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChandra Maldonado and Ashley A. Mattheis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: “This is America. We Don’t Share Land Here.” Kevin Costner, Taylor Sheridan, and Remediating New\/Post-West(ern) Scholarship in Yellowstone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStefan Rabitsch and Pawel Pyrka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: The Pedagogical Possibilities of Kevin Costner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Kevin Costner the Wise Teacher: Thirteen Days and Four Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Gombash\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Intentional Focus on Integrated STEM: Was Costner the Original STEM Influencer?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrea Burrows, Michelle Chamberlain, and Mike Borowczak \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: Resilience and Asset Framing: The Lessons of McFarland, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLudovic A. Sourdot and Edward Janak\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfterword: “Playing the Hand You’ve Been Dealt”: Lessons in Leadership the Post-COVID \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEducational Frontier \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry Ausburn and Edward Janak\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042690040151,"sku":"9781793647863","price":69.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793647863.jpg?v=1750955194","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kevin-costner-americas-teacher-9781793647863","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}