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Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture
Fleeting Images
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2012
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Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture: Fleeting Images, edited by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic and Debbie Olson, is a collection which examines images of “children” and “childhood” in popular culture, including print, online, television shows, and films. The contributors to this volume explore the constructions of “children” and “childhood” rather than actual children or actual childhoods. In the chapters that are concerned with depictions of actual, individual children, the authors investigate how the images of those children conform or “trouble” current notions of what it means to be a child engaged in a contemporary “childhood.” This is a unique volume, because of the academic discourse which is employed—that of “Childhood Studies.” The Childhood Studies scholars represented in this collection utilize an interdisciplinary approach which draws upon various academic fields—their methodologies, theoretical approaches, and scholarly conventions—for the scholarly research in this collection.
Together, the contributions to this collection interrogate classic notions of childhood innocence, knowledge, agency, and the fluid position of the signifier “child” within contemporary media forms. These interdisciplinary works function as a testament to the infectiousness of the child image in print, television, and cinematic contexts, and represent a new avenue of discursive scholarship; the questions raised and connections made provide fresh insights and unique perspectives to topics regarding children and childhood and their representation within multiple media platforms. The growing field of Childhood Studies is enriched by the intellectual originality represented by this volume’s authors who ask new questions about the enduring and captivating image of the child.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6748-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7956-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
250
Product type
Edited Book
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About This Book No access
Chapter One: "The Girl You've Always Wanted to Be!" Girl Power and Commodity Postfeminism in Teen Magazines No access
Chapter Two: Children and Media in Parents Magazine No access
Chapter Three: Making Kids Sexy: Sexualized Youth, Adult Anxieties, and Abercrombie & Fitch No access
Chapter Four: Configuring Childhood on the Web No access
Chapter Five: Pearly Whites and Spandex Tights: The Imagery of Teeth in Peter Pan, Elite Figure Skating and Gymnastics, and Child Beauty Pageants No access
Chapter Six: Conceptualizing Childhood in the Korean Educational Broadcasting System (EBS): A Critical Analysis of Pororo No access
Chapter Seven: Accidental Deaths: The Violence of Representing Childhood in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit No access
Chapter Eight: "Better Multiculturalism" through Technology: Dora the Explorer and the Training of the Preschool Viewer(s) No access
Chapter Nine: "Mischief of One Kind and Another": Nostalgia in Where the Wild Things Are as Text and Film No access
Chapter Ten: "They Don't Really Care What Happens to Me": Divorce, Family Life, and Children's Emotional Worlds in 1950s' British Cinema No access
Chapter Eleven: Representations of Children in Pixar Films: 1995-2011 No access
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) No access
Chapter Thirteen: Childhood in War and Violence: Turtles Can Fly and The Kite Runner No access
Chapter Fourteen: Spelling Out Racial Difference: Moving beyond the Inspirational Discourses in Akeelah and the Bee No access
Chapter Fifteen: See St. Louis and Die:Wartime and the Morbid Child Psychology ofMeet Me in St. Louis No access
