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Book SynopsisIt shows how cultural forms such as Hollywood films, pop music, soap operas, and televangelism are organized by gender, age, class, race, and ethnicity, thus providing the contradictory text that both enables and disables emancipatory interest, so fundamental to the formation of self and society.
Table of ContentsPedagogy, Popular Culture, and Public Life: An Introduction by Paulo Freire and Henry A. Giroux Popular Culture as a Pedagogy of Pleasure and Meaning by Henry A. Giroux and Roger I. Simon Pedagogy and the Popular-Cultural-Commodity-Text by Paul Smith Educational Media, Ideology, and the Presentation of Knowledge through Popular Cultural Forms by Elizabeth Ellsworth Playing . . . Contra/Dictions, Empowerment, and Embodiment: Punk, Pedagogy, and Popular Cultural Forms by Philip Corrigan Pedagogy in the Present: Politics, Postmodernity, and the Popular by Lawrence Grossberg Curriculum Politics, Hegemony, and Strategies of Social Change by R.W. Connell Art or Culture? An Inquiry by Paul Willis Televangelism as Pedagogy and Cultural Politics by Peter McLaren and Richard Smith Engendering Couples: The Subject of Daytime Television by Mimi White Working-Class Identity and Celluloid Fantasies in the Electronic Age by Stanley Aronowitz Schooling, Popular Culture, and A Pedagogy of Possibility by Henry A. Giroux and Roger I. Simon Index
