Teaching Popular Culture in the Humanities Classroom

Teaching popular culture well hinges on the application, not the mere inclusion of popular culture artifacts. Each essay outlines the theory that underpins elegant integrations of popular culture into learning.

List of contents

Part I: Engaging Students
Chapter 1
Leveraging Internet Culture for Community Building in Online Classrooms
Ashley M. Archiopoli
Chapter 2
Create a Comic Book Character: Showcasing Identity, Representation, and DEI Through Critical and Creative Skills
Anthony Ramirez
Chapter 3
Teaching Person-Environment Fit with the Movie Soul
Steven Rodriguez Jr.
Part II: Analysis and Applications
Chapter 4
Exploring and Expanding Moral Philosophy through Science Fiction
James M. Okapal
Chapter 5
Making Meaning in a Shifting World: Teaching Media Literacy through Everything Everywhere All At Once
Melissa Eriko Poulsen
Chapter 6
The Numbers Don't Lie - or Do They? An Exercise in Decoding a Historical Film
Peter Burkholder
Part III: Narrative and Storytelling
Chapter 7
Teaching Narrative Performance Theory with Disney's Encanto
Elizabeth Fish Hatfield
Chapter 8
The Many Stories of Hugh Glass: From the Frontier to the Big Screen and Leonardo DiCaprio's First Oscar
Devan Charles Lindey
Chapter 9
Yesterday: A Beatles Oral History Project
John F. Lyons
Part IV: Exploring Identity
Chapter 10
Teaching Black Lives Matter Through Hip-Hop
Nick J. Sciullo
Chapter 11
Exploring Difficult History Lessons, Identity Construction, the Artistic Expansion of Sitcom
Storytelling Tools in the Black-ish Episode, Juneteenth
Sabrina Voelz
Chapter 12
Teaching Competent Cross-Cultural Communication with Abbott Elementary
Katherine Hampsten

About the author

Edited by Ashley Archiopoli; Katherine Hampsten and Elizabeth Fish Hatfield - Foreword by Edward Janak and Ludovic A. Sourdot - Afterword by Katherine Hampsten - Contributions by Ashley Archiopoli; Anthony Ramirez; Steven Rodriguez Jr.; James M. Okapal; M

Product details

• Authors: Ashley Hampsten Archiopoli
• Assisted by: Ashley Archiopoli (Editor), Ashley Archiopoli (Editor), Elizabeth Fish Hatfield (Editor), Hampsten Katherine (Editor), Hatfield Elizabeth Fish (Editor), Katherine Hampsten (Editor), Edward Janak (Foreword), Janak Edward (Foreword), Ludovic A Sourdot (Foreword), Ludovic A. Sourdot (Foreword), Hampsten Katherine (Afterword), Katherine Hampsten (Afterword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666967074
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-707-4
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Education and Popular Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social and cultural anthropology