Summertime rom-com gone wrong: Popular cultural creators and reviewers as public pedagogues

Using the Netflix romantic-comedy My Oxford Year and the premises of public pedagogy and critical media and information literacy, I pose and respond to two questions about ongoing enactments and representations of sexism in popular culture and cultural norms. First, I draw on evidence of the related concepts of post-feminism and enlightened sexism in popular culture. Second, I explore the function of professional reviewers as tastemakers and, by extension, public pedagogues for their readers. With its limited purpose and scope, this analysis contributes to critically oriented educational and scholarly work in a range of academic disciplines and adult education programmes.