1st Edition
Filmed School Desire, transgression and the filmic fantasy of pedagogy
1. Moving Pictures: The Fantasy of Authority 2. First Lessons: The Origins of the Filmic Teaching Fantasy 3. Law, School: Impossible Relationships in the Ideal Case 4. To Save, with Love: Desire, Domination and Melancholia in Teacher Savior Films 5. Expulsion: The Horror of the Fantasy Made Real 6. Down with Teachers, Up with Revolution: School Violence and Fantasies of Control 7. End of Class: The Death of the Teacher 8. End of the Term: The Limits of Authority and Conclusion
Biography
James Stillwaggon is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Iona College, USA, where his teaching and writing focus on the place of philosophical ideals in democratic education.
David Jelinek is Professor of Art and Art History at Collegiate School, USA. His research and writing focus on the relationship between teachers and students in film. A solo installation of his, Money Down, was exhibited at the Andrew Edlin Gallery in Manhattan.
Readers are invited into a school of transference. In store is a thought provoking study that requests us to look again at that other scene of learning to teach and do so by going to the movies. Stillwaggon and Jelinek are marvelous guides and their book ushers us into fantastical views on the psychical consequences of watching teachers on the silver screen.
Deborah Britzman, FRSC and author of A Psychoanalyst in the Classroom
