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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 of childhood, particularly innocence, economic and
material conditions, and emerging political and social realities
that, at times, present unique challenges to America's children and
the collective expectation of what childhood should be.
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 in international children's programming
The collection addresses how international children's programming
in global and local context informs changing ideas about children
and childhood, including notions of individual and citizen identity
formation Offering new insights into childhood and television
studies, this book will be of great interest to graduate students,
scholars, and professionals in television studies, childhood
studies, media studies, cultural studies, popular culture studies,
and American 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 of childhood, particularly innocence, economic and
material conditions, and emerging political and social realities
that, at times, present unique challenges to America's children and
the collective expectation of what childhood should be.
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 in Minority Report, and the eponymous boy hero of The
Adventures of Tintin. (There are many other instances across his
oeuvre). Contradicting his reputation as a purveyor of 'popcorn'
entertainment, Spielberg's vision of children/childhood is complex.
Discerning critics have begun to note its darker underpinnings,
increasingly fraught with tensions, conflicts and anxieties. But,
while childhood is Spielberg's principal source of inspiration, the
topic has never been the focus of a dedicated collection of essays.
The essays in Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg therefore
seek to address childhood in the full spectrum of Spielberg's
cinema. Fittingly, the scholars represented here draw on a range of
theoretical frameworks and disciplines-cinema studies, literary
studies, audience reception, critical race theory, psychoanalysis,
sociology, and more. This is an important book for not only
scholars but teachers and students of Spielberg's work, and for any
serious fan of the director and his career.
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 in Minority Report, and the eponymous boy hero of The
Adventures of Tintin. (There are many other instances across his
oeuvre). Contradicting his reputation as a purveyor of 'popcorn'
entertainment, Spielberg's vision of children/childhood is complex.
Discerning critics have begun to note its darker underpinnings,
increasingly fraught with tensions, conflicts and anxieties. But,
while childhood is Spielberg's principal source of inspiration, the
topic has never been the focus of a dedicated collection of essays.
The essays in Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg therefore
seek to address childhood in the full spectrum of Spielberg's
cinema. Fittingly, the scholars represented here draw on a range of
theoretical frameworks and disciplines-cinema studies, literary
studies, audience reception, critical race theory, psychoanalysis,
sociology, and more. This is an important book for not only
scholars but teachers and students of Spielberg's work, and for any
serious fan of the director and his career.
Children have been a part of the cinematic landscape since the
silent film era, yet children are rarely a part of the theoretical
landscape of film analysis. Lost and Othered Children in
Contemporary Cinema, edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill,
seeks to remedy that oversight. Throughout the over one-hundred
year history of cinema, the image of the child has been
inextricably bound to filmic storytelling and has been equally
bound to notions of romantic innocence and purity. This collection
reveals, however, that there is a body of work that provides a
counter note of darkness to the traditional portraits of sweetness
and light. Particularly since the mid-twentieth century, there are
a growing number of cinematic works that depict childhood has as a
site of knowingness, despair, sexuality, death, and madness. Lost
and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema challenges notions of
the innocent child through an exploration of the dark side of
childhood in contemporary cinema. The contributors to this
multidisciplinary study offer a global perspective that explores
the multiple conditions of marginalized childhood as cinematically
imagined within political, geographical, sociological, and cultural
contexts.
Children have been a part of the cinematic landscape since the
silent film era, yet children are rarely a part of the theoretical
landscape of film analysis. Lost and Othered Children in
Contemporary Cinema, edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill,
seeks to remedy that oversight. Throughout the over one-hundred
year history of cinema, the image of the child has been
inextricably bound to filmic storytelling and has been equally
bound to notions of romantic innocence and purity. This collection
reveals, however, that there is a body of work that provides a
counter note of darkness to the traditional portraits of sweetness
and light. Particularly since the mid-twentieth century, there are
a growing number of cinematic works that depict childhood has as a
site of knowingness, despair, sexuality, death, and madness. Lost
and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema challenges notions of
the innocent child through an exploration of the dark side of
childhood in contemporary cinema. The contributors to this
multidisciplinary study offer a global perspective that explores
the multiple conditions of marginalized childhood as cinematically
imagined within political, geographical, sociological, and cultural
contexts.
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