Josephine May is Associate Professor (Teaching and Learning) and Deputy Director of the English Language and Foundation Studies Centre at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research interests include Australian educational history, enabling education, childhood and youth history, and history and film.

• Contents: The Cinematic Vernacular of Australian Schooling – The Silent Era: ‘A School of Sentiment’ – High Tide of Nationalist Portrayal 1930s-1960s – Nation and the Girls’ Boarding School in the 1970s – Nation and the Boys’ School in the 1970s – State High School Blues in the Early 1980s – The School Film in the Late 1980s – Multicultural Nation at School in the 1980s-1990s – Private School Fantasies in the 2000s.

«For everyone keen to delve deeply into that sphere of influence [that films about schooling have on us] and its century-long history, this book is a must-read.» (Heather A. Weaver, History of Education Review 43, 2014/1)