Representing Agency in Popular Culture (eBook, PDF)

Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between
Redaktion: Castro, Ingrid E.; Clark, Jessica

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978756168
• Artikelnr.: 74829547

Autorenporträt

Ingrid E. Castro is professor of sociology and director of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Jessica Clark is senior lecturer in sociology and childhood studies at the University of Suffolk.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Jessica Clark and Ingrid E. Castro - Zuzu's Petals and Scout's
Mockingbirds: The Legacy of Children's Agency in Popular Culture
Part I: Political Agency
Chapter 1: Catherine Hartung - "To All the Little Girls. . .Never Doubt
that You are Valuable and Powerful": Representations of Children's Agency
in the Pop Culture Politics of the Trump Era
Chapter 2: Fearghus Roulston and Lucy Newby - Innocent Victims and Troubled
Combatants: Representations of Childhood and Adolescence in Post-Conflict
Northern Irish Cinema Era
Chapter 3: John C. Nelson - "Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves":
Agency and Dehumanization of Children During Wartime
Part II: Social Agency
Chapter 4: Anja Höing - Animalic Agency: Intersecting the Child and the
Animal in Popular British Children's Fiction
Chapter 5: Michael G. Cornelius - Homogeneity, Agency, and the Girls'
College Series, 1905-1925
Chapter 6: Terri Suico - Fractured Friendships and Finding Oneself:
Adolescent Girls Losing Friends but Finding Their Voices in Recent Young
Adult Literature
Chapter 7: Jessica Clark - "Speddies" with Spray Paints: Intersections of
Agency, Childhood, and Disability in Award-Winning Young Adult Fiction
Chapter 8: Tabitha Parry Collins, Mary L. Fahrenbruck, and Leanna Lucero -
Trans Reality: The Development of Agency in Trans*gender and Gender Fluid
Characters in Young Adult Novels
Part III: Generational Agency
Chapter 9: Michelle Nicole Boyer-Kelly - Maori Agents of Change: Examining
the Children of Whale Rider, Once Were Warriors, and Potiki
Chapter 10: Shih-Wen Sue Chen and Sin Wen Lau - Children's Agency and the
Notion of Guai in Chinese Reality TV
Chapter 11: John Kerr - Children Redefining Adult Reality in Maternal
Gothic Films
Chapter 12: Ingrid E. Castro - The Spirit and the Witch: Hayao Miyazaki's
Agentic Girls and Their (Intra)Independent Genderational Childhoods
Afterword
David Buckingham -Agency and Representation in Children's Media Culture