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  • Reading LGBTQ+ Children's Picture Books

    Edited by Jennifer Miller, Sara Austin ...
    Series series Children's Literature Association Series
    Contributions by Sara Austin, Rob Bittner, J. Bradley Blankenship, Gabriel Duckels, Caitlin Howlett, Isabel Millán, Jennifer Miller, Kaylee Jangula Mootz, Tim Morris, Dana Rudolph, j wallace skelton, Jason Vanfosson, River Vooris, and B. J. WoodsteinPicture books are books aimed at children where the illustrations are as important, or more important, than the text. Picture books, the effects of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Global Children’s Literature in the College Classroom

    by Sara Austin, Tanja Nathanael, Debalina Banerjee, Danilo M. Baylen, Johann Frederick A. Cabbab, Hung-Shu Chen, Deanna Day, Stephen Dudas, Erika Haber0, Christa Catherine Jones1, Emily Murphy2, Mary Napoli3, Audrey Isabel Taylor4, Maria Truglio5, Sara Van den Bossche6, Jean Webb7, Yasemin Yilmaz Yüksek8 ...
    Global Children's Literature in the College Classroom explores the importance of children's literature as a pedagogical resource in any college course. It can be used to introduce a complex topic, give students a glimpse into a specific culture, or expand the way students think about education and teaching. Global children's literature is particularly useful in language classrooms, education ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Monstrous Youth

    Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States

    by Sara Austin ...
    Winner, 2024 Children’s Literature Association Book Award The monstrous has a long, complicated history within children’s popular media. In Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States, Sara Austin traces the evolution of monstrosity as it relates to youth culture from the 1950s to the present day to spotlight the symbiotic relationship between monstrosity and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between

    Challenging Gender and Sexuality Stereotypes in Children's Entertainment Media

    by Fatima Q. Al Hattami, Sara Austin, Thomas J Billard, Nancy Bressler, Claire Burdfield, Chrys Egan, Rebecca Feasey, Susan G. Kahlenberg, Brian L. MacAuley, Jennifer Miller, Jerralyn R. R. Moudry0, Annick Pellegrin1, Christopher J. Olson2, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard4, Richard J. Schaefer6, Heike Steinhoff7 ...
    Current characters in children’s entertainment media illustrate a growing trend of representations that challenge or subvert traditional notions of gender and sexuality. From films to picture books to animated television series, children’s entertainment media around the world has consistently depicted stereotypically traditional gender roles and heterosexual relationships as the normal way that ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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  • Criminology Goes to the Movies

    Crime Theory and Popular Culture

    by Nicole Rafter, Michelle Brown ...
    A "deftly written and absorbing" look at how films reflect concepts in criminology and affect our perceptions of criminal behavior (Richard Rosenfeld, coauthor of Crime and the American Dream).From Psycho to Double Indemnity to Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminological theory is produced not only in the academy through scholarly research, but also in popular ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pop Culture Freaks

    Identity, Mass Media, and Society

    by Dustin Kidd ...
    Utilizing each chapter to present core topical and timely examples, Pop Culture Freaks highlights the tension between inclusion and individuality that lies beneath mass media and commercial culture, using this tension as a point of entry to an otherwise expansive topic. He systematically considers several dimensions of identity—race, class, gender, sexuality, disability—to provide a broad overview ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Ready or Not

    Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Th

    by Kay S. Hymowitz ...
    "Children today grow up so fast!" How often we hear those words, uttered both in frustrated good humor and in dumbfounded astonishment. Every day the American people hear about kids doing things, both good and bad, that were once thought to be well beyond their scope: flying airplanes, running companies, committing mass murder. Creatures of the information age, today's children sometimes seem to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Subversive Horror Cinema

    Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present

    by Jon Towlson ...
    Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma--the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post-9/11--and this critical text argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror--from James Whale to Jen and Sylvia Soska--have used the genre, and the shock value it affords, to challenge the status quo during these times. Spanning the decades from the 1930s ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom

    Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art

    Edited by Robert G. Weiner, Carrye Kay Syma ...
    Sequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have to interpret the images with the writing. Comics make a good fit with education because students are using a format that provides active engagement. This collection of essays is a wide-ranging look at current practices using comics and graphic novels in educational settings, from elementary schools through college. The ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Feminism at the Movies

    Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema

    Edited by Hilary Radner, Rebecca Stringer ...
    Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today’s changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary films across a range of genres, such as chick flicks, teen pics, hommecoms, horror, action adventure, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Framing Blackness

    The African American Image in Film

    by Ed Guerrero ...
    Series series Culture And The Moving Image
    From D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Ed Guerrero argues, the commercial film industry reflects white domination of American society. Written with the energy and conviction generated by the new black film wave, Framing Blackness traces an ongoing epic—African Americans protesting screen images of blacks as criminals, servants, comics, athletes, and sidekicks.These ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Reading American Horror Story

    Essays on the Television Franchise

    Edited by Rebecca Janicker ...
    Looming onto the television landscape in 2011, American Horror Story gave viewers a weekly dose of psychological unease and gruesome violence. Embracing the familiar horror conventions of spooky settings, unnerving manifestations and terrifying monsters, series co-creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk combine shocking visual effects with an engaging anthology format to provide a modern take on the ... Read more

    $11.89 USD