Chapter 1 Popular Media Representations of American Schooling from the Past

Chapter 2 The College Man in Popular Fiction: American Magazines and the Vision of the Middle-Class Man, 1890–1915

Chapter 3 “A Touch of Risquity”: Teachers, Perception, and Popular Culture in the Progressive Era

Chapter 4 “Spirit of Education”: The Gendered Vision of Compulsory Schooling in Mass Magazine Art, 1908–1938

Chapter 6 Fears on Film: Representations of Juvenile Delinquency in Educational Media in Mid-Twentieth-Century America

Chapter 7 Students without a Cause: Blackboard Jungle , High School Movies, and High School Life

Chapter 8 The Importance of Teaching Ernest: The Fool Goes Back to School in Television and Film Comedies in the Late Twentieth Century

Chapter 9 Prosaic, Perfunctory Pedagogy: Representations of Social Studies Teachers and Teaching in 1970s and 1980s Movies

Chapter 10 Looking at the Man in the Principal’s Office