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Article: Hollywood Goes to High School.(Book review)
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- Social Forces
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Hollywood Goes to High School By Robert C. Bulman Worth Publishers, 2005. 191 pages. $23.95 (paper)
Robert Bulman seeks to bring much-needed sociological sensibility to the study of the high school film. Observing that most studies treat the genre "monolithically," Bulman differentiates urban public, suburban public and private school films. The book argues that Hollywood's portrayal of adolescence and high school rests on social class distinctions and that the films reflect and reinforce a "middle-class cultural hegemony" that has to do with "individualism, self-sufficiency, free expression, hard work and fair play." (p. 7)
Bulman insightfully unearths ...