Breaking in to the Movies by Henry A Giroux
This text brings together Henry A. Giroux's best-known essays from the last 20 years, centring on important subjects on the cultural studies and pop culture agenda, including violence, race, class, gender, identity, politics, and children's culture.
In this collection of essays, Henry Giroux demonstrates once again that he is one of our leading public political intellectualsEvery page is filled with the passion of his commitment both to social and economic justice and to theoretical rigor. This collection combines insightful readings of how specific films operate in the current social context and original reflections on the central theoretical and methodological issues facing cultural studies today. This is a book that will move both students and teachers. Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Henry Giroux is one of our most penetrating cultural critics. In Breaking in to the Movies, he demonstrates how pleasure and power, entertainment and public pedagogy, are always intertwined in the culture of global capitalism. Giroux offers a refreshing approach in a field often characterized by a paucity of intellectual imagination. This is real cultural criticism. Sut Jhally, University of Massachusetts
Henry A. Giroux holds the Waterbury Chair Professorship and is currently the Director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies at Pennsylvania State University. His most recent books include Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture's War on Children (2001); Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies (2000); The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence (1999); and Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope (1997).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780631226048 |
| ISBN 10 | 0631226044 |
| Title | Breaking in to the Movies |
| Author | Henry A Giroux |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 308 |
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