Like Don Larsson's post, I'd agree that the initial list of authors seem a bit unsubtle. Look at some of the critical education literature about pop culture. For example, a collection of essays called Popular Culture: Schooling & Everday Life, edited by Henry Giroux & Roger Simon. Other work by Giroux would be relevant here as well, framing TV not as the ultimate friend or enemy to education, but rather as a necessary and complex site of engagement and negotiation. Also to overcome the anti-TV bias in many of the authors originally listed, a classic text about TV (not its education context specifically) is John Fiske's Television Culture. -Jason Mittell ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]