Kevin Costner, America''s Teacher

Kevin Costner, America’s Teacher addresses how Kevin Costner's oeuvre has been a vital source of informal education for, and about, Americans. This book is the first to examine the educational impact of Costner’s works.

List of contents

Contents

Foreword
Andrew Grunzke
Introduction
Ludovic A. Sourdot and Edward Janak

Part I: Kevin Costner and America's Game
Chapter One: Candlesticks Make a Nice Gift: The Baseball Films of Kevin Costner
Cathy Leogrande
Chapter Two: Heaven or Iowa? Field of Dreams and Public Understanding of America's Pastime
Bradley Hart and Dennis Hart

Part II: Kevin Costner and Sex, Gender, and the New West
Chapter Three: Black Women's Lives Matter: Revisiting The Bodyguard Thirty Years Later
Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
Chapter Four: Performing the Rugged Patriarch: Yellowstone's Commemoration of the American Monomyth
Chandra Maldonado and Ashley A. Mattheis
Chapter Five: "This is America. We Don't Share Land Here." Kevin Costner, Taylor Sheridan, and Remediating New/Post-West(ern) Scholarship in Yellowstone
Stefan Rabitsch and Pawel Pyrka

Part III: The Pedagogical Possibilities of Kevin Costner
Chapter Six: Kevin Costner the Wise Teacher: Thirteen Days and Four Lessons from the Cuban Missile Cris

About the author

Veronica Fynn Bruey is a module convenor at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, director of Flowers School of Global Health Science, faculty affiliate at Seattle University School of Law, and research affiliate with the University of London’s Refugee Law Initiative.

Summary

Kevin Costner, America’s Teacher addresses how Kevin Costner's oeuvre has been a vital source of informal education for, and about, Americans. This book is the first to examine the educational impact of Costner’s works.

Product details

• Authors: Edward A. Janak, Edward A. Sourdot Janak, Ludovic A. Janak Sourdot
• Assisted by: Edward Janak (Editor), Edward A. Janak (Editor), Janak Edward (Editor), Ludovic A. Sourdot (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781793647863
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-786-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Education and Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, EDUCATION / Non-Formal Education, Educational strategies & policy, Educational systems and structures