Abstract
Metaphoric representations of the teaching-learning process in popular film images seem to fall within three categories: "TEACHING AS DOGMATIC TASKMASTERING," "TEACHING AS HEROISM," and "TEACHING AS INTIMACY." Sometimes, however, film images are destabilized through irony and nuance, which can upset stereotypes of the teacher-learner relationship. In this article, we examine how the teaching-learning process is portrayed metaphorically in popular films. Teacher-learner relationships in popular films are often conveyed through images that excite, entice, and appeal to a more general set of human desires, such as the need for power, guidance, nurturing, and loving. We examine which existing "reel" metaphors of the teaching-learning process dominate American popular culture and how these understandings may manifest themselves in trite, formulaic ways as well as in semantically deeper and more creative ways.
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