| Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between Contributor(s): Castro, Ingrid E. (Editor), Clark, Jessica (Editor), Boyer-Kelly, Michelle Nicole (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1498574947 ISBN-13: 9781498574945 Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury OUR PRICE: $140.58 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature - Social Science | Children's Studies - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 305.23 |
| LCCN: 2018044998 |
| Series: Children and Youth in Popular Culture |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 332 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children's and youth's agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children's lives, this book places popular culture and representation as central to this endeavor. Core themes of family, gender, temporality, politics, education, technology, disability, conflict, identity, ethnicity, and friendship traverse across the chapters, framed through various film, television, literature, and virtual media sources. Here, childhood is considered far from homogeneous and the dominance of neoliberal models of agency is questioned by intersectional and intergenerational analyses. This book posits there is vast power in popular culture representations of children's agency, and interrogation of these themes through interdisciplinary lenses is vital to furthering knowledge and understanding about children's lives and within childhood studies. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hartung, Catherine: - Catherine Hartung is Research Fellow in Education at Deakin University |
