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Films are an important means of conveying cultural and political stories of the times. In their narrative construction and storytelling they create a public pedagogy. For hooks (1996), “cinema assumes a pedagogical role in the lives of many people. It may not be the intent of a film-maker to teach audiences anything, but that does not mean that lessons are not learned” (pp. 2–3).
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Brown, T. (2015). Teachers on Film. In: Jubas, K., Taber, N., Brown, T. (eds) Popular Culture as Pedagogy. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, vol 95. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-274-5_4
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