Representing agency in popular culture : children and youth on page, screen, and in between / edited by Ingrid E. Castro and Jessica Clark ; afterword by David Buckingham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Castro, Ingrid E., editor.

Clark, Jessica, 1986- editor.

Series:

Children and youth in popular culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children in popular culture.

Children in mass media.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 299 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2019]

Contents:

Part I Political Agency p. 1

1 'To all the little girls ... never doubt that you are valuable and powerful": Representations of Children's Agency in the Pop Culture Politics of the Trump Era p. 3 / Catherine Hartung

2 Innocent Victims and Troubled Combatants: Representations of Childhood and Adolescence in Post-conflict Northern Irish Cinema p. 23 / Lucy Newby and Fearghus Roulston

3 "Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves": Agency and Dehumanization of Children During Wartime p. 41 / John C. Nelson

Part II Social Agency p. 63

4 Animalic Agency: Intersecting the Child and the Animal in Popular British Children's Fiction p. 65 / Anja Höing

5 Homogeneity, Agency, and the Girls' College Series, 1905-1925 p. 85 / Michael G. Cornelius

6 Fractured Friendships and Finding Oneself: Adolescent Girls Losing Friends and Gaining Their Voices in Recent Young Adult Literature p. 109 / Terri Suico

7 "Speddies" with Spray Paints: Intersections of Agency, Childhood, and Disability in Award-Winning Young Adult Fiction p. 133 / Jessica Clark

8 Trans Reality: The Development of Agency in Trans*gender and Gender Fluid Characters in Young Adult Novels p. 157 / Tabitha Parry Collins and Mary L. Fahrenbruck and Leanna Lucero

Part III Generational Agency p. 179

9 Maori Agents of Change: Examining the Children of Whale Rider, Once Were Warriors, and Potiki p. 181 / Michelle Nicole Boyer-Kelly

10 Children's Agency and the Notion of Guai in Chinese Reality Television p. 205 / Sin Wen Lau and Shih- Wen Sue Chen

11 Children Redefining Adult Reality in Maternal Gothic Films p. 231 / John Kerr

12 The Spirit and the Witch: Hayao Miyazaki's Agentic Girls and their (Intra) Independent Genderational Childhoods p. 255 / Ingrid E. Castro.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Representing agency in popular culture

ISBN:

9781498574945

1498574947

OCLC:

1055568751