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Imagining the academy higher education and popular culture

The essays in this book examine various representations of higher education in popular culture. Claiming that "higher education represents a crossroads of our social and political landscape," the editors stress the importance of popular media in determining the status and purpose of the academy. In their treatments of film, literature, television, music, and the Internet, the essays collected offer a wide array of perspectives on the role of higher education in the popular imagination.

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  • "The essays in this book examine various forms of popular culture in the US and the ways in which they represent, shape, and are considered by notions about and issues within higher education. From an exploration of rap music to an analysis of how the academy presents and markets itself on the World Wide Web, this book focuses attention on higher education issues that are bound up in the workings and effects of popular culture."
  • "The essays in this book examine various representations of higher education in popular culture. Claiming that "higher education represents a crossroads of our social and political landscape," the editors stress the importance of popular media in determining the status and purpose of the academy. In their treatments of film, literature, television, music, and the Internet, the essays collected offer a wide array of perspectives on the role of higher education in the popular imagination."@en

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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Imagining the Academy: Higher Education and Popular Culture"
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  • "Imagining the academy : higher education and popular culture"
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