Education, Affect, and Film

Irving Epstein is the Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Peace and Social Justice at Illinois Wesleyan University. In addition to Education, Affect, and Film, he is the author of Affect Theory and Comparative Education Discourseand the editor of Chinese Education: Problems, Policies and Prospects (1991), Recapturing the Personal (2007), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children’s Issues Worldwide (2007), and The Whole World is Texting: Youth Protest in the Information Age (2015). From 1988-1998, he served as an associate editor of the Comparative Education Review, and is an Emeritus member of the Scholars at Risk advisory board, an international network devoted to protecting scholars from persecution while engaging in academic freedom advocacy.

Series Editors’ Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Theoretical Musings
1. Engaging in Comparison: The Power of Affect
2. Film, Comparative and International Education, and Affect: Some Theoretical Considerations
3. Globalization, Commodification, and Affect
Part II: Case Studies
4. Social Class: Oppression and Aspiration
Parasite (Gisaenchung)
A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin)
Still Life (San Xia Hao Ren)
5. Racism and the Struggle to Assert Identity
The Underground Railroad
Small Axe
Tsotsi
6. Indigeneity/Colonialism: Cultural Elimination and Resistance
Rabbit Proof Fence
We Were Children
The Pearl Button (El botón de nácar)
7. Environmental Consciousness: Exploiting, Understanding, Respecting the Natural World
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
My Octopus Teacher
Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth
Concluding Remarks
References