ISBN:
9780739167489
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (265 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture : Fleeting Images
DDC:
305.23
Keywords:
Children in popular culture
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Children in popular culture
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
〈span〉〈span〉〈span〉In 〈/span〉〈span style=""font-style:italic;""〉Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture: Fleeting Images〈/span〉〈span〉, edited by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic and Debbie Olson, examine how children and the concept of childhood are presented in visual and print media through the unique lens of childhood studies. This collection, authored by a cadre of international scholars, explores how children are represented, and how they represent themselves, in print, television, film, advertising, and emerging Web technologies. 〈/span〉〈/span〉〈/span〉
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; About This Book; Part One: Print and the Web; Chapter One: ""The Girl You've Always Wanted to Be!"" Girl Power and Commodity Postfeminism in Teen Magazines; Chapter Two: Children and Media in Parents Magazine; Chapter Three: Making Kids Sexy: Sexualized Youth, Adult Anxieties, and Abercrombie & Fitch; Chapter Four: Configuring Childhood on the Web; Part Two: Television; Chapter Five: Pearly Whites and Spandex Tights: The Imagery of Teeth in Peter Pan, Elite Figure Skating and Gymnastics, and Child Beauty Pageants
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Six: Conceptualizing Childhood in the Korean Educational Broadcasting System (EBS): A Critical Analysis of PororoChapter Seven: Accidental Deaths: The Violence of Representing Childhood in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Chapter Eight: ""Better Multiculturalism"" through Technology: Dora the Explorer and the Training of the Preschool Viewer(s); Part Three: Film; Chapter Nine: ""Mischief of One Kind and Another"": Nostalgia in Where the Wild Things Are as Text and Film
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Ten: ""They Don't Really Care What Happens to Me"": Divorce, Family Life, and Children's Emotional Worlds in 1950s' British CinemaChapter Eleven: Representations of Children in Pixar Films: 1995-2011; Chapter Twelve: Little Burton Blue: Tim Burton and the Product(ion) of Color in the Fairy Tale Films The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993) and The Corpse Bride (2005); Chapter Thirteen: Childhood in War and Violence: Turtles Can Fly and The Kite Runner; Chapter Fourteen: Spelling Out Racial Difference: Moving beyond the Inspirational Discourses in Akeelah and the Bee
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter FifteenSee St. Louis and Die:Wartime and the Morbid Child Psychology ofMeet Me in St. LouisIndex; About the Authors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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