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This book about media images of teachers offers a rare chance to reflect on a profession that touches all of us. These chapters give readers a critical look into the way educators and education have been portrayed on what is effectively one of our first teachers-television. -Naeemah Clark, co-author of Diversity in U.S. Mass Media In Teacher TV, Dalton and Linder help us to see the shifting representations of teachers on television from the early days of the medium to the present-and how those representations both reflect and influence societal views on teaching. This book is essential for anyone interested in issues of race, class, and gender as frameworks for understanding the portrayal of teachers in popular culture. -Jeremy Stoddard, co-editor of Teaching Difficult History through Film Addressing issues of race, class, and sexuality, this smart, accessible study of teachers on situation comedies and dramatic series is required reading for classroom teachers, their students, and television fans. In this expanded edition, Dalton and Linder shed new light on the significant role television has played over the past seven decades in the cultural construction of the image of the American teacher. -Stephen Tropiano, author of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV

This book about media images of teachers offers a rare chance to reflect on a profession that touches all of us. These chapters give readers a critical look into the way educators and education have been portrayed on what is effectively one of our first teachers-television. -Naeemah Clark, co-author of Diversity in U.S. Mass Media Addressing issues of race, class, and sexuality, this smart, accessible study of teachers on situation comedies and dramatic series is required reading for classroom teachers, their students, and television fans. In this expanded edition, Dalton and Linder shed new light on the significant role television has played over the past seven decades in the cultural construction of the image of the American teacher. -Stephen Tropiano, author of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV In Teacher TV, Dalton and Linder help us to see the shifting representations of teachers on television from the early days of the medium to the present-and how those representations both reflect and influence societal views on teaching. This book is essential for anyone interested in issues of race, class, and gender as frameworks for understanding the portrayal of teachers in popular culture. -Jeremy Stoddard, co-editor of Teaching Difficult History through Film

In Teacher TV, Dalton and Linder help us to see the shifting representations of teachers on television from the early days of the medium to the present-and how those representations both reflect and influence societal views on teaching. This book is essential for anyone interested in issues of race, class, and gender as frameworks for understanding the portrayal of teachers in popular culture. -Jeremy Stoddard, co-editor of Teaching Difficult History through Film Addressing issues of race, class, and sexuality, this smart, accessible study of teachers on situation comedies and dramatic series is required reading for classroom teachers, their students, and television fans. In this expanded edition, Dalton and Linder shed new light on the significant role television has played over the past seven decades in the cultural construction of the image of the American teacher. -Stephen Tropiano, author of The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV This book about media images of teachers offers a rare chance to reflect on a profession that touches all of us. These chapters give readers a critical look into the way educators and education have been portrayed on what is effectively one of our first teachers-television. -Naeemah Clark, co-author of Diversity in U.S. Mass Media

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Mary M. Dalton is Professor of Communication at Wake Forest University, author of The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies (Third Revised Edition 2017), and a documentary filmmaker.　 Laura R. Linder is a retired media arts professor, author of Public Access Television: America’s Electronic Soapbox (1999), and co-editor (with Dalton) of The Sitcom Reader: America Re-viewed, Still Skewed (Second Edition 2016).

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