Comments on: Pop-Culture Settings https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/02/01/pop-culture-settings/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Gary Farber https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/02/01/pop-culture-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-3213 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:00:53 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=325#comment-3213 re The Wire, I guess." <a href="http://www.tv.com/boston-public/show/34/summary.html" rel="nofollow">Boston Public</a>?]]> “Unless you’re The Wire, I guess.”

Boston Public?

]]> By: laurel https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/02/01/pop-culture-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-3202 Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:30:44 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=325#comment-3202 Hey, that’s my life. The biggest problem with hero teacher movies is that they happen in the middle of a lot of arguments about education policy, NCLB, and how to improve schools, and, well, hero teachers are not a policy option.

]]> By: owen https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/02/01/pop-culture-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-3201 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:17:41 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=325#comment-3201 Here in the UK the Channel 4 drama series ‘Teachers’ was apparently the channel’s most successful ever. This may be because the focus of the show was always the alcohol/nicotine consumption and sex lives of the teachers. It was also quite funny and borrowed some Ali McBealesque surrealism.

]]> By: abstractart https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/02/01/pop-culture-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-3193 Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:32:46 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=325#comment-3193 I thought they did make that movie. Or a highly stylized, fantastic version of it, anyway.

Over-the-top as that film may be, it’s one of the very few “teacher movies” that challenges the stock triumphal storyline of the Hero Teacher.

]]> By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/02/01/pop-culture-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-3192 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:46:07 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=325#comment-3192 I remember that case. Very depressing.

]]> By: Western Dave https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/02/01/pop-culture-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-3191 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:25:35 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=325#comment-3191 Actually, a high school acquaintance of mine used his inherited fortune to support his NYC teaching habit. He was killed by two of his students who had been to his apartment before when he helped them out with some personal troubles. His name was Jon Levin. It was front page NYT stuff, but off course, nobody ever makes that movie.

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