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Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture: Fleeting Images, edited
by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic and Debbie Olson, is a collection which
examines images of "children" and "childhood" in popular culture,
including print, online, television shows, and films. The
contributors to this volume explore the constructions of "children"
and "childhood" rather than actual children or actual childhoods.
In the chapters that are concerned with depictions of actual,
individual children, the authors investigate how the images of
those children conform or "trouble" current notions of what it
means to be a child engaged in a contemporary "childhood." This is
a unique volume, because of the academic discourse which is
employed-that of "Childhood Studies." The Childhood Studies
scholars represented in this collection utilize an
interdisciplinary approach which draws upon various academic
fields-their methodologies, theoretical approaches, and scholarly
conventions-for the scholarly research in this collection.
Together, the contributions to this collection interrogate classic
notions of childhood innocence, knowledge, agency, and the fluid
position of the signifier "child" within contemporary media forms.
These interdisciplinary works function as a testament to the
infectiousness of the child image in print, television, and
cinematic contexts, and represent a new avenue of discursive
scholarship; the questions raised and connections made provide
fresh insights and unique perspectives to topics regarding children
and childhood and their representation within multiple media
platforms. The growing field of Childhood Studies is enriched by
the intellectual originality represented by this volume's authors
who ask new questions about the enduring and captivating image of
the child.
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.
Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture: Fleeting Images, edited
by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic and Debbie Olson, is a collection which
examines images of "children" and "childhood" in popular culture,
including print, online, television shows, and films. The
contributors to this volume explore the constructions of "children"
and "childhood" rather than actual children or actual childhoods.
In the chapters that are concerned with depictions of actual,
individual children, the authors investigate how the images of
those children conform or "trouble" current notions of what it
means to be a child engaged in a contemporary "childhood." This is
a unique volume, because of the academic discourse which is
employed-that of "Childhood Studies." The Childhood Studies
scholars represented in this collection utilize an
interdisciplinary approach which draws upon various academic
fields-their methodologies, theoretical approaches, and scholarly
conventions-for the scholarly research in this collection.
Together, the contributions to this collection interrogate classic
notions of childhood innocence, knowledge, agency, and the fluid
position of the signifier "child" within contemporary media forms.
These interdisciplinary works function as a testament to the
infectiousness of the child image in print, television, and
cinematic contexts, and represent a new avenue of discursive
scholarship; the questions raised and connections made provide
fresh insights and unique perspectives to topics regarding children
and childhood and their representation within multiple media
platforms. The growing field of Childhood Studies is enriched by
the intellectual originality represented by this volume's authors
who ask new questions about the enduring and captivating image of
the child.
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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