Overview
- Explores how academia is imagined in popular culture from 1980s classics to Netflix
- Chapters study the internal and external tensions that shape higher education
- Timely study as there are more students than ever but also exceptional pressures on universities
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture (PSSPC)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited volume focuses on the cultural production of knowledge in the academy as mediated or presented through film and television. This focus invites scrutiny of how the academy itself is viewed in popular culture from The Chair to Terry Pratchett's ‘Unseen University’ and Doctor Who's Time Lord Academy among others. Spanning a number of genres and key film and television series, the volume is also inherently interdisciplinary with perspectives from History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, STEM, and more. This collection brings together leading experts in different disciplines and from different national backgrounds. It emphasises that even at a point of mass, global participation in higher education, the academy is still largely mediated by popular culture and understood through the tropes perpetuated via a multimedia landscape.
Reviews
—Christian K. Anderson, University of South Carolina
“A fascinating read. The impact of popular culture on perceptions of both academia and science proves to be a subject of much greater importance and interest than many would predict. Once an actor in Dr Who, I went on to study zoology. Is it possible that my time on the series had more of an infl uence on me than I ever suspected?”
—Mark Strickson, 5to9 Productions
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Richard Scully, BA (Hons), PhD (Monash), FRHistS is Associate Professor in Modern History at the University of New England, Australia. His research focuses on the history of cartoons, caricature, and graphic satire. He has co-edited four collections of essays, including two volumes on Australia’s migrant and minority press for Palgrave Macmillan.
Professor Marcus Harmes is Associate Director Research at the University of Southern Queensland College, Australia, and teaches legal history in the law degree. He has published extensively in the fields of religious and political history, with a particular emphasis on British religious history and constitutional history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Academia and Higher Learning in Popular Culture
Editors: Marcus K. Harmes, Richard Scully
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32350-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32349-2Published: 25 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32352-2Due: 25 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32350-8Published: 24 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-4359
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4367
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 273
Topics: Screen Studies, Higher Education