The British School Film: From Tom Brown to Harry Potter

by Stephen Glynn

Through close textual and contextual analysis of British films spanning a century, this book explores how pupils, teachers and secondary education in general have been represented on the British screen. The author addresses a number of topics including the nature of public (fee-paying) and state schooling; the values of special, single-sex and co-education; the role of male and female teachers; and the nature of childhood and adolescence itself. From...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137558865
• ISBN13: 9781137558862
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.6"