In the magical realm of children's play, toys and stories have a rich and complex relationship. In this collection, contributors analyze the many types of interplay between children's toys and narrative. Many of these essays explore how this relationship is portrayed in novels, films, and television programs. Others discuss how this relationship is shaped by broader historical and cultural narratives. Still other essays discuss how children create their own stories while playing with toys. Taken together, the essays speak to the myriad ways that toys are represented in popular narratives and…mehr
In the magical realm of children's play, toys and stories have a rich and complex relationship. In this collection, contributors analyze the many types of interplay between children's toys and narrative. Many of these essays explore how this relationship is portrayed in novels, films, and television programs. Others discuss how this relationship is shaped by broader historical and cultural narratives. Still other essays discuss how children create their own stories while playing with toys. Taken together, the essays speak to the myriad ways that toys are represented in popular narratives and provide insights into the meanings that toys hold for children, adults and society.
Kathy Merlock Jackson is a professor of media and communication at Virginia Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses in media studies and children's culture. She is the author of over a hundred articles, chapters, and reviews and has published fourteen books. She is a former editor of The Journal of American Culture and a past president of the Popular Culture Association. Mark I. West is the former chair of the English department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has written or edited twenty-five books on children's literature and culture and is a former president of the Children's Literature Association.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark I. West Iconic Toy Characters The Winnie-the-Pooh Toys and Their Immigration to America Mark I. West "Just representing a woman": The Tension Between Toyhood and Womanhood in the 2023 Barbie Movie Collette Bliss Dolls "At least I pretend I believe": Dolls, Imagination, and Empathy in A Little Princess Claudia Mills Dolls with Opinions: Tracing Sentient Dolls from The Adventures of a Doll (1816) to Hitty: Her First Hundred Years (1929) Katharine Kittredge Writing Sitting Pretty: A Celebration of Black Dolls and an Author's Reflection on Bringing Her Dolls to Life Dianne Johnson-Feelings (aka Dinah Johnson) Puppets Breathing Life into the Wood: Pinocchio and the Uncanny Martin Woodside Screen Puppetry: Toys in the History of Stop-Motion Animation Holly Blackford Humes Building Toys LEGOS: Child Development and Storytelling Jacki Fitzpatrick "Of bricks and other things": E. Nesbit's Theory and Practice of Building Magic Cities Jan Susina Toys, Race, and Ethnicity Playing with Race: Replicating and Subverting Minstrel Narratives in Children's Toys Dorian Cole The Edge of Play: Belonging and Borderlands in Juan Felipe Herrera's Picture Book Super Cilantro Girl/La Superniña del Cilantro Maya Socolovsky Toys, Nature, and the Environment Reimagining Play "For Real Life": How Bluey Replaces Toys, Games, and Technology with Relationships, Role-Play, and the Natural World Haley Flanders Anderson Eco-Fiction Storytelling with the Underfoot Character Toys Tanya Marriott Toys in Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Digital Animation Future Shock Science Fiction as a Toy('s) Story in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence Garret Castleberry M3gan, Ron, Klara and The(ir) Playing Children: Exploring Toy Friends of the Future Through Speculative Toy Fiction Katriina Heljakka and Jacqueline Fulmer From Luxo to Lou: Toys in Pixar Shorts and the Search for Meaning Paula T. Connolly Displacement, Brokenness, and Toys Toys in Children's Literature of Forced Displacement Sarah Minslow Broken Toys and What They Mean: A Media Analysis Kathy Merlock Jackson Timeless Tales of Rabbits, Bears, Toys, and Dolls and How They Become Real: A Bibliography of Toys and Stories in Interplay Camille McCutcheon About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark I. West Iconic Toy Characters The Winnie-the-Pooh Toys and Their Immigration to America Mark I. West "Just representing a woman": The Tension Between Toyhood and Womanhood in the 2023 Barbie Movie Collette Bliss Dolls "At least I pretend I believe": Dolls, Imagination, and Empathy in A Little Princess Claudia Mills Dolls with Opinions: Tracing Sentient Dolls from The Adventures of a Doll (1816) to Hitty: Her First Hundred Years (1929) Katharine Kittredge Writing Sitting Pretty: A Celebration of Black Dolls and an Author's Reflection on Bringing Her Dolls to Life Dianne Johnson-Feelings (aka Dinah Johnson) Puppets Breathing Life into the Wood: Pinocchio and the Uncanny Martin Woodside Screen Puppetry: Toys in the History of Stop-Motion Animation Holly Blackford Humes Building Toys LEGOS: Child Development and Storytelling Jacki Fitzpatrick "Of bricks and other things": E. Nesbit's Theory and Practice of Building Magic Cities Jan Susina Toys, Race, and Ethnicity Playing with Race: Replicating and Subverting Minstrel Narratives in Children's Toys Dorian Cole The Edge of Play: Belonging and Borderlands in Juan Felipe Herrera's Picture Book Super Cilantro Girl/La Superniña del Cilantro Maya Socolovsky Toys, Nature, and the Environment Reimagining Play "For Real Life": How Bluey Replaces Toys, Games, and Technology with Relationships, Role-Play, and the Natural World Haley Flanders Anderson Eco-Fiction Storytelling with the Underfoot Character Toys Tanya Marriott Toys in Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, and Digital Animation Future Shock Science Fiction as a Toy('s) Story in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence Garret Castleberry M3gan, Ron, Klara and The(ir) Playing Children: Exploring Toy Friends of the Future Through Speculative Toy Fiction Katriina Heljakka and Jacqueline Fulmer From Luxo to Lou: Toys in Pixar Shorts and the Search for Meaning Paula T. Connolly Displacement, Brokenness, and Toys Toys in Children's Literature of Forced Displacement Sarah Minslow Broken Toys and What They Mean: A Media Analysis Kathy Merlock Jackson Timeless Tales of Rabbits, Bears, Toys, and Dolls and How They Become Real: A Bibliography of Toys and Stories in Interplay Camille McCutcheon About the Contributors Index
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