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Blackboard Jungle: The Ethnographic Narratives of Education on Film
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 46, Number 4, Summer 2007
- pp. 24-44
- 10.1353/cj.2007.0041
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
In this essay, the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle serves as the conceptual template for an examination of otherness and authenticity as expressed through the narrative tropes of the arrival scene and the pedagogical breakthrough in fiction films that feature teachers as protagonists and ethnographies that foreground the ethnographer as subject.
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