This unprecedented volume includes 30 essays by teachers and students about the teacher characters who have inspired them. Drawing on film and television texts, the authors explore screen lessons from a variety of perspectives.

MARY M. DALTON is Professor of Communication and Film and Media Studies at Wake Forest University. She is the co-editor of Screen Lessons: What We Have Learned From Teachers on Television and in the Movies and of The Sitcom Reader: American Re-viewed, Still Skewed with Laura R. Linder. In addition to her scholarly work in the area of critical media studies, she is a documentary filmmaker and a media critic. LAURA R. LINDER is a semi-retired Media Studies professor. She is co-author of Teacher TV: Sixty Years of Teachers on Television with Mary M Dalton and co-editor of The Sitcom Reader: American Re-viewed, Still Skewed, both with Mary M. Dalton, and the author of Public Access Television: America’s Electronic Soapbox.