Hollywood often features classroom scenes that depict a highly glamorized version of teaching.
These scenes are particularly noticeable to Jessamyn Neuhaus, who is both a professor who teaches courses about popular culture and the director of the Center of Teaching Excellence at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
There’s one scene in particular that she says typifies these moments. It’s from a 2015 horror film called “Pay the Ghost.” It stars Nicholas Cage as a professor, and in one scene, after a dramatic lecture, his students burst into applause.
