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Children's Media and Modernity - Film, Television and Digital Games (Hardcover, New edition)
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Children's Media and Modernity - Film, Television and Digital Games (Hardcover, New edition)
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Throughout the modern era the figure of the child has consistently
reflected adult concerns about industrialisation, urbanisation,
technology, consumerism and capitalism. Children represent a
symbolic retreat from modern life, culturally aligned with fairy
tales, medievalism, animals and nature. Yet children also embody
the future and are often identified with the most contemporary
forms of popular culture. This book explores how products for
children navigate such contradictions by investigating the history
and textuality of three major forms of modern media: cinema,
television and digital games. Case studies - including Wallace and
Gromit, Teletubbies, Horrible Histories, Little Big Planet and
Disney Infinity - are used to illustrate the complex intersections
between children's culture and modernity. Cinema - so closely
associated with the emergence of modernity and mass popular culture
- has had to negotiate its relationship with child audiences and
depictions of childhood, often concealing its connection with
modernity in the process. In contrast, television's incorporation
into family home-centred, post-war modernity resulted in children
being clearly positioned as the audience for this domestic
entertainment. The latter decades of the twentieth century saw the
promotion of home computers as educational tools for training
future generations, capitalising on positive alignments between
children and technologies, while digital games' narrative
references, aesthetics and merchandise established the new medium
as a form of children's culture.
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