Teaching History with Message Movies

by Steven Alan Carr and Jennifer Frost

Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. With their emphasis on issues such as drug and alcohol abuse, sex, race, gender, and violence, social problem films, or "message movies," offer a compelling look at the eras in which they were made. In order to facilitate the use of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442278382
• ISBN13: 9781442278387
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"