From Superman to social realism : children's media and Scandinavian childhood / Helle Strandgaard Jensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strandgaard Jensen, Helle, author.

Series:

Children's literature, culture, and cognition, ISSN 2212-9006 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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

From Superman to Social Realism

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction. Debating children's media, defining Scandinavian childhood

Understanding historical debates about children's media: Message, not medium

Debates about children and media as 'consumption politics'

Writing Scandinavian childhood history

Children's media history: A Scandinavian perspective

Public debates as socio-cultural struggles

Consumption politics in action: Defining the arena and its agents

Overview

Chapter 1. The welfare state's children and their media consumption

Studying children's reading habits

Concerns and ideas: An international context

The national committees and the comics problem

The welfare state's leading professionals

The comics debate: Perspectives on children and society

Undemocratic superheroes and the ruin of educational efforts

The undesirable culture of capitalism

Chapter 2. Finding the right solution: The establishment's countermoves

How to take responsibility: Censorship or information

Defining the appropriate solution: Children's classics

Catching children's interest

Getting children into the library

Reading at home: A question of parental guidance

Children's own (useless) opinions

The 1950s in conclusion: Educating the child for the future

Chapter 3. The 1960s: A time of change and challenge

Challenge and change

Changing norms for children's literature in the mid 1960s

Criticism of the establishment's institutional power from the left and right

NORDEN and the nature of children's literature

Trash Culture for Children

Chapter 4. Revision of the appropriate

Realism, politics and art for children.

New fronts in the debate about children's media

New agendas for 'children's culture'

Challenging the boundaries of children's media and children's culture

Chapter 5. Defining children's needs and wants

Children's television: TV as children's spokesperson?

Children's libraries: Ivory towers or playgrounds?

The battleground revised: Between protection, politicisation and emancipation

Chapter 6. Turning inwards: 'Children's culture' and the support of a true childhood

Exploration of children's culture: A shared Scandinavian agenda

Childhood and "children's culture" in modern society

Culture shock for children in a new world

New agendas for literature in children's lives

The emancipating fantasy

From ideology to psychology and the concern for children's wellbeing

Chapter 7. Navigating children through a new media landscape

The interests of the market and the interests of children

Video and violence: Psychology and the fragile mind of the child

Electronic media as an irrevocable part of children's lives?

Media research and TV's influence on children's perception of the world

Creativity, play, and television: A good childhood?

The appropriate use of electronic media: A parental responsibility

Childhood and electronic media: A compatible pair?

Conclusion. Understanding past debates about children and media

Understanding medium and message in debates about children's media

Scandinavian childhood in light of debates about children's media

Children, childhood, and media: The burden of innocence

Bibliography

Published primary sources

Indexes, registers

Digital catalogues

Archives

Unpublished sources

Published secondary sources

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.