Introduction / Melanie Shoffner -- Identifying with the teacher image. Looking into the Mirror of Erised: transacting with representations of Hogwarts' teachers and pedagogy / Dawan Coombs, Jonathan Ostenson -- Playing the role of teacher: using film to explore teacher identities / Sheryl Long, Carol A. Pope -- The role of the teacher, real and imagined / Jason Whitney -- Coming of age in the classroom: representations of teachers in the short fiction of Toni Cade Bambara and Sandra Cisneros / Rodrigo Joseph Rodríguez -- From content literate to pedagogically content literate: teachers as tools for social justice / Nalova Westbrook -- (Re)imagining life in the classroom: inciting dialogue through an examination of teacher-student relationships in film / Mark A. Lewis, Ian Parker Renga -- Constructing the teacher with content. Teacher images in young adult literature: pedagogical implications for English preservice teachers / Benjamin Boche -- Why teach mathematics?: values underlying mathematics teaching in feature films / Amanda Jansen, Charles Hohensee -- I teach Jim and Jane; I don't teach gym / Carol A. Smith -- What does it mean to be literate? examining school film teachers and their literacy values with preservice teachers / Shelbie Witte -- The hidden curriculum in Room 10: school mythology and professional identity negotiation in the Miss Malarkey picture book series / Sarah Fischer -- Imaging the teacher as savior. Moving beyond the teacher savior: education films, teacher identity and public discourse / Carey Applegate -- Revisionist films: detaching from teacher as hero/savior / Chea Parton -- Deconstructing a new teacher savior: paladins and politics in Won't back down / Ashley Boyd -- Chalk: overwriting the savior narrative / Walter E. Squire -- The teacher construct as commentary. Films, governmentality and agency in the struggle over reading education / Patrick Shannon -- Why Bad teacher is a bad movie and where the real crisis is: implications for teachers and teacher education / J. Patrick McGrail, Ewa McGrail -- Preparing teachers in the time of Superman: the accountability narrative of education documentaries / Christian Z. Goering, Jen S. Dean, Brandon Flammang -- No human left behind: falling skies and the role of the pedagogue in the post-apocalypse / Jeff Spanke