Campus Life in the Movies

<p> Hollywood films have presented audiences with stories of campus life for nearly a century shaping popular perceptions of our colleges and universities and the students who attend them. These depictions of campus life have even altered the attitudes of the students themselves serving as both a mirror of and a model for behavior. One can only imagine how many high school seniors enter college today with the hopes of living the proverbial <I>Animal House</I> or <I>PCU</I> Greek experience or how many have worried over the SAT and college admissions after watching more recent movies like 2004's <I>The Perfect Score</I>.</p><p> This book explores themes of college life in 681 live-action theatrically released feature-length films set in the United States and released from 1915 through 2006 evaluating how these movies both reflected and distorted the reality of undergraduate life.</p><p> Topics include college admissions the freshman experience academic work professor-student relations student romance fraternity and sorority life sports political activism and other extracurricular activities. The book also includes a complete filmography and 66 illustrations.</p>