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 WorldAnthropocene: The Human Epoch My Octopus Teacher Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth Concluding Remarks References

A masterful and highly original contribution to thinking about the intersection of comparative international education and film. Using the lens of affect theory, Epstein shows how the two fields together promote new insights into fundamental questions regarding the connections between education and the representation of social experience through film.