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Cine y entretenimiento / Film & Entertainment

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Este libro reúne los ensayos sobre cine más importantes escritos por Henry Giroux durante los últimos veinte años, centrados en temas tan importantes para los estudios culturales como la violencia, la raza, la clase, el género, la identidad, la política y la cultura infantil. Giroux se revela así uno de los observadores más astutos de la tradición de Hollywood, desde sus primeras reflexiones de los años setenta, a partir de películas como Norma Rae y Buscando al señor Goodbar, hasta los innovadores análisis acerca de fenómenos cinematográficos más recientes como Pulp Fiction, El club de los poetas muertos, Mentes peligrosas o El club de la lucha. Abordando el papel fundamentalmente pedagógico de los filmes en la sociedad contemporánea, Giroux demuestra cómo definen éstos los modos en que la juventud asume las cuestiones sociales de más actualidad. L

328 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

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Henry A. Giroux

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American cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory.

A high-school social studies teacher in Barrington, Rhode Island for six years, Giroux has held positions at Boston University, Miami University, and Penn State University. In 2005, Giroux began serving as the Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Giroux has published more than 35 books and 300 academic articles, and is published widely throughout education and cultural studies literature. Since arriving at McMaster, Giroux has been a featured faculty lecturer, and has published nine books, including his most recent work, The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex.

Routledge named Giroux as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in 2002.

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