Dead Poets Society - the end of the legend, the call for revision by Michał Paluch

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A PORTRAITURE OF TEACHING TECHNIQUES AND VALUES PROPOSED IN DEAD POETS SOCIETY A MOVIE BY PETER WEIR by Tri Yulianingsih, Syafrianto SM, Maria Wulandari

“… Dead Poets Society is a movie about teaching techniques and values that are applicable to teachers and students. …”
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'Modernity': the historical ontology by Ponti Venter

“…This historical ontology has since been taken up by important nineteenth-century thinkers such as Hegel, Comte, Marx and Darwin, and also makes its influence felt in the irrationalist tradition (albeit with the poles inverted), and even in the present day in various areas of culture (such as the film Dead Poets' Society). …”
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Using “School Films” in Initial Teacher Education: A Reflective Learning Approach by Daniela-Maria Crețu, David Morariu

“…Our analysis relies on four case studies of films such as Dead Poets Society (Weir, 1989), The Ron Clark Story (Haines, 2006), Freedom Writers (LaGravenese, 2007), Entre les murs [The Class] (Cantet, 2008) that have become classics within the “school films” cinematic sub-genre. …”
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Scholarship in Perspective by Andrew Phang

“…His honesty, albeit tinged with a sharp edge at times in the style of the late Professor Rodell, is, as already alluded to above, refreshing and his wry humour (witness for example, his “elaborate” graph at note 60 which is reminiscent of Robin Williams’ putdown of “mechanistic poetry” in “Dead Poets Society”) is more than welcome. What is disturbing, however, is his very sweeping and all too reductionist view of legal scholarship. …”
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