Dead Poets Society (1989)








Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each, in their own way, does this, and are changed for life.


Books with substantial mentioning of Dead Poets Society

Jürgen Müller
Die besten Filme der 80er
Köln - London - Los Angeles - Madrid - Paris - Tokyo, 2005

Peter W. Engelmeier (ed.)
Icons of film, The 20th century
Munich; New York, 2000

Pauline Kael
Movie Love, Complete Reviews 1988-1991
New York, NY, 1991

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990

Articles with substantial mentioning of Dead Poets Society

Ian Nathan, The Wizard of Oz, The Films of Peter Weir, in: Empire, nr. 258 (December), 2010 pp. 134-140