Kevin Costner, America&#039;s Teacher

Edward Janak; Ludovic A. Sourdot

doi:10.5771/9781793647870

Summary

Kevin Costner: America's Teacher examines the role of Costner in educational settings domestically and abroad. Costner’s career over the past 35 years has seen ups and downs: his movies grossed 2 billion dollars in ticket sales worldwide and he has he won/been nominated for several Academy Awards but he also experienced critical and box office failures. Through the films in his oeuvre, Costner has been teaching audiences around the world about the United States--its history, people and culture. Some viewers and scholars recognize this as positive, others as problematic. This book serves as a place for teachers and scholars to explore ways in which Costner may be tapped for research and teaching purposes at all levels of education. It is organized around three large themes: Costner’s baseball films and their connection to Americana; Costner’s films through the more critical lenses of gender and new western scholarship; and Costner’s teaching of teachers, the pedagogical possibilities of his work.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4786-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4787-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 206
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. 1. Note No access
  2. Bibliography No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. Why Costner? Why This Book? By Ludovic A. Sourdot No access
2. Organization of the Book by Edward Janak No access
3. Notes No access
4. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Play Ball: Costner’s Baseball Trilogy No access
  2. The National Pastime: Baseball as a Mirror of American Values No access
  3. Heroic Individualism: The Lone Wolf within a Team No access
  4. What Does a Man’s Man Look Like: Complexities of Masculinity No access
  5. Summary No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
2. 1. “Say it Ain’t So, Joe” No access
  2. Building the Field of Dreams No access
  3. Almost Heaven? No access
  4. Conclusions No access
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  6. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Anti-Black Stereotypes in The Bodyguard No access
  2. Black Lives Matter No access
  3. Conclusion No access
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2. 1. Performance as Circulation: Commemoration through Embodiment No access
  2. Commemorating Myth and Performing Rugged Masculinity No access
  3. Modernizing the Cowboy Persona: The Patriarch as Conqueror No access
  4. Benevolent Domination: Children as Conquered No access
  5. Branding as Benevolent Conquest: Dominator as Savior No access
  6. Rugged Toxicity: American Monomyth and the Death of Progress No access
  7. Notes No access
  8. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Introduction: “That’s A Great Idea” No access
  2. What’s New in the West? Teaching the New/Post-West through Yellowstone No access
  3. “You Have to Take that Right”: Landed Complexities No access
  4. “You are the Indian Now”: Postcolonial Voices No access
  5. “[O]ne Hell of a Life”: Cowboy(ing) Verisimilitudes and Concluding Ironies No access
  6. Notes No access
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1. 1. Lesson 1: A Wise Teacher Values Students Who Are Intelligent No access
  2. Lesson 2: A Wise Teacher Understands That Introspection Is Critical to Good Judgment No access
  3. Lesson 3: The Wise Teacher Values Intuition as a Lens into the Future No access
  4. Lesson 4: The Wise Teacher Treats Their Enemy with Compassion and Empathy No access
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2. 1. Setting the Stage No access
  2. Integrated STEM and Costner No access
  3. 1. American Flyers No access
    2. Overlap between Gear Ratios and Ascents and Descents No access
    3. The Guardian No access
    4. Thirteen Days No access
  4. Connections to Informal and Formal Schooling No access
  5. Costner Is All of Us No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. Bibliography No access
3. 1. Synopsis No access
  2. Cinematic Context: McFarland as Teacher Flick No access
  3. Lessons from McFarland: Asset-Based Pedagogy No access
  4. Lessons in Resilience No access
  5. Lessons in Caste: Problematizing McFarland No access
  6. Conclusion No access
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  8. Bibliography No access
1. The Challenge of the Pandemic No access
2. Lessons in Family, Friendships, and Loyalty No access
3. Conclusion: Earp’s Leadership Style and Relevance in Today’s Education No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 193 - 200
1. Editors No access
2. Contributors No access