Using the movies to make sense of society : a sociological introduction
Middle-class individualism and the adolescent frontier : what high school films reveal about American culture
Fighting the culture of poverty : the teacher as the urban school cowboy
Expressing oneself in a culture of conformity : contradictions in suburban school cinema
Challenging the culture of privilege : class conflict in the private school film
Cinematic study abroad : high school films in comparative perspective
Film fantasies as cultural myths : applying the sociological imagination
Appendix: High school film sample.