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Portrayals of children in popular culture : fleeting images / edited by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic and Debbie Olson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children.
- Children in popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture: Fleeting Images, 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.
- Contents:
- About this book / VIBIANA BOWMAN CVETKOVIC AND DEBBIE OLSON
- Print and the web
- The girl you've always wanted to be! : girl power and commodification in teen magazines / Caryn Murphy
- Children and media in parenting magazines / Amy Franzini
- Making kids sexy : sexualized youth, adult anxieties and Abercrombie and Fitch / Stephen Gennaro
- Configuring childhood on the web / Katie Elson Anderson
- Television
- Pearly whites : the imagery of teeth in Peter Pan, elite figure skating, gymnastics, and toddler beauty pageants / Beth Nardella
- Conceptualizing childhood in the Korean education the korean education broadcasting system (EBS) : a critical analysis of Pororo / LENA LEE
- Accidental deaths : the violence of representing childhood in law & order : special victims unit / MORGAN GENEVIEVE BLUE
- Better multiculturalism through technology : Dora the explorer and the training of the preschool viewer(s) / Drew Chappell
- Film
- Making mischief of one kind or another : turning literary rebellion into film reminiscence in where the wild things are / Michelle Ann Abate
- They don't really care what happens to me : divorce, family life and children's emotional worlds in 1950s' British cinema / Janet Fink
- Representations of children in Pixar films : / 1995-2008 / Iris Shepard
- 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) / Debbie Olson
- Childhood in war and violence : turtles can fly and the kite runner / Lan Dong
- Spelling out racial difference : moving beyond the inspirational discourses in Akeelah and the bee / Kathryn E. Linder
- See St. Louis and die : wartime and the morbid child psychology of meet me in St. Louis / Vincent Casaregola
- Index
- About the contributors.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7391-7956-X
- OCLC:
- 879024385
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