| Description |
xii, 220 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Invisible Audience / Cary Bazalgette and David Buckingham -- Babes 'n' the Hood: Pre-school Television and its Audiences in the United States and Britain / Maire Messenger Davies -- Watching with Mother in the Early 1950s / David Oswell -- On the Impossibility of Children's Television: The Case of Timmy Mallett / David Buckingham -- 'The Power is Yours': Agency and Plot in Captain Planet / Greg Myers -- Home Alone in the 90s: Generational War and Transgenerational Address in American Movies, Television and Presidential Politics / Marsha Kinder -- Unshrinking the Kids: Children's Cinema and the Family Film / Cary Bazalgette and Terry Staples -- Once Upon a Time Beyond Disney: Contemporary Fairy-tale Films for Children / Jack Zipes -- Turtle Power: Illusion and Imagination in Children's Play / Cathy Urwin -- Room to Dance: Girls' Play and The Little Mermaid / Chris Richards -- The Empire of Play: Emergent Genres of Product-based Animations / Stephen C. Kline |
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Toy-based Video for Girls: My Little Pony / Ellen Seiter -- Moral Kombat and Computer Game Girls / Helen Cunningham -- Very Nearly in Front of the Children: The Story of Alternity / Martin Barker |
| Summary |
These essays by British and American writers, including Jack Zipes, Martin Barker and Maire Messenger Davies, explore such questions as: what is the appeal of "Ninja Turtles" or "My Little Pony"? What are the "Home Alone" movies really about? And does Disney liberate or enslave the imagination? |
| Analysis |
Children Effects of Mass media |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Ccild psychology
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Child psychology.
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Motion pictures and children.
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Television and children.
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Mass Media [MESH]
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Mass Media.
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| Author |
Bazalgette, Cary.
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Buckingham, David, 1954-
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British Film Institute.
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| LC no. |
96107535 |
| ISBN |
0851704522 |
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0851704530 (paperback) |
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