Only rarely does a film emerge that challenges preconceptions and expectations. By employing categorization schemes to examine how Hollywood casts teachers on film and television, broad patterns have emerged of “good” and “bad” educators, and additional research has revealed that these general archetypes vary in predictable ways according to the sex of the teacher, but that differences in characterization related to race, social class, and sexual orientation are surprisingly slight, though there are some differences between patterns displayed in Hollywood films and on American television (Dalton, The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies Dalton and Linder). For twenty years, I have studied representations of teachers in popular culture and the implications of those depictions for teachers, students, and those who interact with teachers or students (Dalton, “The Hollywood Curriculum: Who Is the ‘Good’ Teacher?”).
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