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From Superman to social realism : children's media and Scandinavian childhood / Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Aarhus University.
Van Pelt Library HQ784.M32 S347 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strandgaard Jensen, Helle, author.
- Series:
- Children's literature, culture, and cognition ; v. 6.
- Children's literature, culture, and cognition, 2212-9006 ; volume 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media and children--Scandinavia.
- Mass media and children.
- Children's mass media--Scandinavia.
- Children's mass media.
- Social realism--Scandinavia.
- Social realism.
- Social values--Scandinavia.
- Social values.
- Scandinavia.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 188 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
- Summary:
- Can children?s media be a source of education and empowerment? Or is the commercial media market a threat to their sense of social and democratic values? Such questions about the appropriateness children?s media consumption have recurred in public debates throughout the twentieth century. 'From Superman to Social Realism' provides an exciting new approach to the study of children?s media and childhood history, drawing on the theories of cross-media consumption and transnational history. Based on extensive Scandinavian source material, it explores public debates about children?s media between 1945 and 1985. Readers are taken on a fascinating journey through debates about superheroes in the 1950s, politicization of children?s media in the 1960s, and about television and social realism in the 1980s. Arguments are firmly contextualized in Scandinavian childhood and welfare history, an approach that demonstrates why professional and political groups have perceived children?s media as the key to the enculturation of future generations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Strandgaard Jensen, Helle author. From Superman to social realism.
- ISBN:
- 9789027201607
- 9027201609
- OCLC:
- 969828161
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