Children's Media and Modernity: Film, Television and Digital Games

ISBN-13: 9783034319911 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 296 str.

Kirkland, Ewan

Opis

Throughout the modern era, the figure of the child has consistently reflected adult concerns about industrialisation, consumerism and technology. Drawing on case studies of Wallace and Gromit, Teletubbies, Horrible Histories and more, this book explores how media products for children navigate understandings of childhood and child audiences.

Recenzje

«I would recommend Kirkland's book to any scholars interested in childness or in the production histories of media connected to children's culture.»
(Katherine Whitehurst, European Journal of Communication Vol. 33(5)/2018)

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Thinking of the Children - History, Childhood and Modernity - Cinema for Children - Television for Children - Digital Games for Children.

O autorze

Ewan Kirkland lectures in Film and Screen Studies at the University of Brighton. He has previously published on The Powerpuff Girls, the Twilight series and horror videogames, and has organised academic conferences on science fiction, zombies in popular culture and the My Little Pony franchise. In his work he focuses on issues of representation - particularly dominant identities such as masculinity, whiteness and heterosexuality - and on the construction of childhood through media for children.