Neoliberal Exclusion and the Fantasy of Competition
What are Children Learning from Monsters University
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8924284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luke Greeley (0000-0002-5544-1589, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 335-345 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1946 • E-ISSN: 1532-6993 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00131946.2017.1417858 |
| OpenAlex | W2790802529 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 29 |
The Disney/Pixar film, Monsters University (2013) was a tremendous financial success. As a film written entirely about college students and their quest for social and economic attainment, but marketed primarily to children and adolescents, its messages about the purpose of college and the college experience deserve close examination given its widespread popularity. Theorists have argued that popular fiction (Tompkins, 1986 Tompkins, J. (1986). Sensational designs: The cultural work of American fiction, 1790–1860. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. [Google Scholar]), especially film (Giroux, 1996 Giroux, H. A. (1996). White panic and the racial coding of violence. Fugitive cultures: Race, violence, and youth, 27–54. [Google Scholar], 2008 Giroux, H. A. (2008). Hollywood film as public pedagogy: Education in the crossfire. Afterimage, 35(5), 7–13.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]; Gregory, 2007 Gregory, M. (2007). Real and teaching and real learning vs. narrative myths about education. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 6(1), 7–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474022207072197.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]; Peterson, 2009), is a powerful vehicle for creating, reflecting, and reinforcing social values and norms. This article examines the film closely to challenge the many explicit and implicit stereotypes it portrays regarding meritocracy, elitism, and gender and reflects on the role of friendship in a neoliberal society
Art · Art history · Criminology · Elitism · Hollywood · Literature · Media studies · Meritocracy · Narrative · Neoliberalism (international relations · Police brutality · Political science · Popular culture · Social science · Sociology · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law
Paying the Price
The Precariat
The New Political Economy of Urban Education
The Terror of Neoliberalism
Sensational designs
Hollywood Film as Public Pedagogy
"Reel" Metaphors for Teaching
Coming Up Short
The Forms of Capital
Cultural Theory
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
Showing them the door (nicely)
Real Teaching and Real Learning vs Narrative Myths about Education
Push and pull in the classroom
Education and Lifetime Earnings in the United States
Teachers in the 'Hood
Reflections About Images,Visual Culture, and Educational Research
Celluloid Ivy
Changing the Educational Landscape
But then feminism goes out the window
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Successful girls? Complicating post-feminist, neoliberal discourses of educational achievement and gender equality
Educating the national citizen in neoliberal times
Leaving Home for College
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |