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  • The Undead Child in Popular Culture

    Representations of Childhoods Past, Present, and Preserved

    Edited by Craig Martin, Debbie Olson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explores the theme of undeadness as it applies to cultural constructions of the child.Moving beyond conventional depictions of the undead in popular culture as living dead monsters of horror and mad science that transgress the borders between life and death, rejuvenation, and decay, the authors present undeadness ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television

    by Debbie Olson, Joseph V. Giunta, Cory Jobb, Cijo Joy, Suniti Madaan, Elaine Morton, Denis Newiak, Nick Petrov, Matthew Smith, Monica Sousa0, Ingrid E. Castro1 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    This collection examines the child’s role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the “rightness” of past systems of social order. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Children, Youth, and American Television

    Edited by Adrian Schober, Debbie Olson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Television Studies
    This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the changing ideas about children and childhood in the United States. Each chapter connects relevant events, attitudes, or anxieties in American culture to an analysis of children or childhood in select American television programs. The essays in this collection explore historical intersections of the family with expectations ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Children, Youth, and International Television

    Edited by Debbie Olson, Adrian Schober ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Television Studies
    This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the public consumption of changing ideas about children, childhood, and national identity, via a critical examination of programs that prominently feature children and youth in international television.The chapters connect relevant cultural attitudes within their respective countries to an analysis of children and/or childhood ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King

    by Debbie Olson, Shastri Akella, Lauren Christie, Joshua Garrison, Roxanne Harde, Kara Lukancic, Jennifer Manthei, Katherine McCain, Andrew McCormack, Debaditya Mukhopadhyay0, Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad1, Brennan Thomas2, James M. Curtis3, Kristen Miller Hill4, Ingrid E. Castro5, Karen Renner6 ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    This unique and timely collection examines childhood and the child character throughout Stephen King’s works, from his early novels and short stories, through film adaptations, to his most recent publications. King’s use of child characters within the framework of horror (or of horrific childhood) raises questions about adult expectations of children, childhood, the American family, child agency, ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema

    by Debbie Olson, Eduardo Barros-Grela, María Bobadilla Pérez, Tarah Brookfield, Glen Donnar, Aryak Guha, Mark Heimermann, James M. Hodapp, Frank Jacob, Cassandra L. Jones0, Eric D. Miller1, Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon2, Betül Atesçi Koçak3, Jennifer Brown4 ...
    The child in many post-apocalyptic films occupies a unique space within the narrative, a space that oscillates between death and destruction, faith and hope. The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Black Children in Hollywood Cinema

    Cast in Shadow

    by Debbie Olson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores cultural conceptions of the child and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film. Debbie Olson argues that within the discourse of children’s studies and film scholarship in relation to the conception of “the child,” there is often little to no distinction among children by race—the “child” is most often discussed as a universal entity, as the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

    by Debbie Olson ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and philosophically - offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and interrogate the child presence within the cinematic complexity of Hitchcock's films. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Child in World Cinema

    by Michael Brodski, Juanita But, Lucia Rabello de Castro, Lennon Yao-chung Chang, Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Jessica Davidson, Paromita Deb, Yoad Eliaz, Einat Baram Eshel, Swarnavel Eswaran, Negin Golravesh Fekry, Walaa Ghanayim, Omri Grinberg, Caroline Isabel Grose, Seyyed Mohsen Habibi, Kelly Hansen, Belinda He, Kobe Chan Yan Chuen, Caroline Larde, Sin Wen Lau, Fabiana de Amorim Marcello, Kenta McGrath, Kaori Mori Want, Mina Rezaei, Carolina Rocha, Christine Singer, Adelaide Rezende de Souza, Paula Uglione, Onoriu Colacel, Christa Jones ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege a Western ideal. Rather, this collection seeks to broaden our ideas about children, childhood, and ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg

    by Jen Baker, Jessica Balanzategui, Noel Brown, Andrew M. Gordon, James Kendrick, Peter Krämer, Gabrielle Kristjanson, Fran Pheasant-Kelly, Leonie Rutherford, Ingrid E. Castro ...
    Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
    To say that children matter in Steven Spielberg's films is an understatement. Think of the possessed Stevie in Something Evil (TV), Baby Langston in The Sugarland Express, the alien-abducted Barry in Close Encounters,Elliott and his unearthly alter-ego in E.T, the war-damaged Jim in Empire of the Sun, the little girl in the red coat in Schindler’s List, the mecha child in A.I., the kidnapped boy ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • You Play the Girl

    On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages

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    N ational B ook C ritics C ircle A ward Winner . "With dazzling clarity, [Chocano's] commentary exposes the subliminal sexism on our pages and screens."— O, The Oprah MagazineAs a kid in the 1970s and 80s, Carina Chocano was confused ... ... Read more

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