ABSTRACT
Teacher movies—movies about Teachers and, implicitly, about the students they teach—are texts which instruct us in ways to read youth. Particularly in relation to teachers and schooling, youth as students have been re/produced through film as troubled, yet salvageable; as misguided, but talented; as vulnerable, but ultimately independent. The re/production of youth through film has re/inscribed the ways in which society has come to know youth, in relation to role, power, knowledge, and pleasure, all of which re/present effects of desire in relations between teacher and student.
