An Autoethnographic Examination of 1990s Film as a Site of Public Pedagogy: Images of the Willful Subject in Popular Culture

Autor/in	Grover, Ash
Titel	An Autoethnographic Examination of 1990s Film as a Site of Public Pedagogy: Images of the Willful Subject in Popular Culture
Quelle	In: Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 33 (2021) 1, S.69-84 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1925-993X
Schlagwörter	Films; Popular Culture; Mass Instruction; Identification; Femininity; Personal Autonomy; Individual Power; Ethnography; Discourse Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Film; Popkultur; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Femaleness; Weiblichkeit; Individuelle Autonomie; Eigeninitiative; Ethnografie; Diskursanalyse
Abstract	This research is an exploration of my evolving relationship with popular culture: as an activist, an educator, and a self-described pop-culture geek. As a biracial and queer woman working in the field of education, I am motivated to examine my own experiences with formal and informal methods of learning, addressing the social and political gaps in each. In exploring my own experiences growing up racialized, queer, and lower-class, I am making a clear case for the value of popular culture as a site of learning about aspects of identity that were often not discussed or were ignored entirely in the classroom settings to which I was exposed. Combining aspects of critical analytic autoethnography (Taber, 2012) with feminist discourse analysis (Lazar, 2007), I examine three key films: "Scream" (Craven, 1996), "Practical Magic" (Dunne, 1998), and "Disturbing Behavior" (Nutter, 1998), as well as three characters in these films whom I identify as having had a large influence on me as a teenager, particularly in fostering my ongoing (un)learning surrounding the willful subject (Ahmed, 2014). These three characters are Sidney Prescott from "Scream," Sally Owens from "Practical Magic," and Rachel Wagner from "Disturbing Behavior." (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Mount Saint Vincent University. e-mail: cjsaerceea@gmail.com; Web site: https://cjsae.library.dal.ca/index.php/cjsae
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01