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Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy - Walking in Other Worlds (Paperback): Ingrid E. Castro Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy - Walking in Other Worlds (Paperback)
Ingrid E. Castro; Contributions by Ana Lilia Campos-Manzo, Michele D. Castleman, Ingrid E. Castro, Sophia Kremmydiotou, …
R991 Discovery Miles 9 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children's agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a genre allows for children's spectacular dreams and hopeful realities. Friendship, family, identity, loyalty, belongingness, citizenry, and emotionality are central concepts explored in chapters that are anchored by humanities texts of television, film, and literature, but also by social science qualitative methods of participant observation and interviews. Fantasy has the capacity to be a revolutionary change agent that in its modernity can creatively reflect, critique, or reimagine the social, political, and cultural norms of our world. Such promise is also found to be true of children's agency, wherein children's beings and becomings, rooted in childhood's freedoms and constraints, result in a range of outcomes. In the endeavor to broaden theory and research on children's agency, fantasy becomes a point of possibility with its expanding subjectivities, far-reaching terrain, and spirit of adventure.

Representing Agency in Popular Culture - Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between (Paperback): Ingrid E. Castro,... Representing Agency in Popular Culture - Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between (Paperback)
Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark; Contributions by Michelle Nicole Boyer-Kelly; Afterword by David Buckingham; Contributions by Ingrid E. Castro, …
R1,076 Discovery Miles 10 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children's and youth's agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children's lives, this book places popular culture and representation as central to this endeavor. Core themes of family, gender, temporality, politics, education, technology, disability, conflict, identity, ethnicity, and friendship traverse across the chapters, framed through various film, television, literature, and virtual media sources. Here, childhood is considered far from homogeneous and the dominance of neoliberal models of agency is questioned by intersectional and intergenerational analyses. This book posits there is vast power in popular culture representations of children's agency, and interrogation of these themes through interdisciplinary lenses is vital to furthering knowledge and understanding about children's lives and within childhood studies.

Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction - Travel, Technology, Time (Paperback): Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction - Travel, Technology, Time (Paperback)
Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark; Contributions by Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark, Muireann B Crowley, …
R1,073 Discovery Miles 10 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children's and youth's agency with the popular culture genre of science fiction. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency in children's lives, this collection places science fiction at the heart of this endeavor. Retellings of the past, narratives of the present, and new landscapes of the future, each explored in science fiction, allow for creative reimaginings of the capabilities, movements, and agency of youth. Core themes of generation, embodiment, family, identity, belonging, gender, and friendship traverse across the chapters and inform the contributors' readings of various film, literature, television, and virtual media sources. Here, children and youth are heterogeneous, and agency as a central analytical concept is interrogated through interdisciplinary, intersectional, intergenerational, and posthuman analyses. The contributors argue that there is vast power in science fiction representations of children's agency to challenge accepted notions of neoliberal agency, enhance understandings of agency in childhood studies, and further contextualize agency in the lives, voices, and cultures of youth.

Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy - Walking in Other Worlds (Hardcover): Ingrid E. Castro Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy - Walking in Other Worlds (Hardcover)
Ingrid E. Castro; Contributions by Ana Lilia Campos-Manzo, Michele D. Castleman, Ingrid E. Castro, Sophia Kremmydiotou, …
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R2,518 Discovery Miles 25 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children's agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a genre allows for children's spectacular dreams and hopeful realities. Friendship, family, identity, loyalty, belongingness, and emotionality are central concepts explored in chapters that are anchored by humanities texts of television, film, and literature, but also by social science qualitative methods of participant observation and interviews. Fantasy has the capacity to be a revolutionary change agent that in its modernity can creatively reflect, critique, or reimagine the social, political, and cultural norms of our world. Such promise is also found to be true of children's agency, wherein children's beings and becomings, rooted in childhood's freedoms and constraints, result in a range of outcomes. In the endeavor to expand theory and research on children's agency, fantasy becomes a point of possibility with its expanding subjectivities, far-reaching terrain, and spirit of adventure.

Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King (Hardcover): Debbie Olson Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King (Hardcover)
Debbie Olson; Contributions by Shastri Akella, Ingrid E. Castro, Lauren Christie, James Michael Curtis, …
R2,885 Discovery Miles 28 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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, and the nature of fear and terror for (or by) children. The ways in which King presents, complicates, challenges, or terrorizes children and notions of childhood provide a unique lens through which to examine American culture, including both adult and social anxieties about children and childhood across the decades of King's works.

Representing Agency in Popular Culture - Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between (Hardcover): Ingrid E. Castro,... Representing Agency in Popular Culture - Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between (Hardcover)
Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark; Contributions by Michelle Nicole Boyer-Kelly; Afterword by David Buckingham; Contributions by Ingrid E. Castro, …
R2,906 Discovery Miles 29 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children's and youth's agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children's lives, this book places popular culture and representation as central to this endeavor. Core themes of family, gender, temporality, politics, education, technology, disability, conflict, identity, ethnicity, and friendship traverse across the chapters, framed through various film, television, literature, and virtual media sources. Here, childhood is considered far from homogeneous and the dominance of neoliberal models of agency is questioned by intersectional and intergenerational analyses. This book posits there is vast power in popular culture representations of children's agency, and interrogation of these themes through interdisciplinary lenses is vital to furthering knowledge and understanding about children's lives and within childhood studies.

Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg (Paperback): Adrian Schober, Debbie Olson Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg (Paperback)
Adrian Schober, Debbie Olson; Contributions by Jen Baker, Jessica Balanzategui, Noel Brown, …
R1,300 Discovery Miles 13 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 in the Films of Steven Spielberg (Hardcover): Adrian Schober, Debbie Olson Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg (Hardcover)
Adrian Schober, Debbie Olson; Contributions by Jen Baker, Jessica Balanzategui, Noel Brown, …
R2,925 Discovery Miles 29 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction - Travel, Technology, Time (Hardcover): Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction - Travel, Technology, Time (Hardcover)
Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark; Contributions by Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark, Muireann B Crowley, …
R2,420 Discovery Miles 24 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children’s and youth’s agency with the popular culture genre of science fiction. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency in children’s lives, this collection places science fiction at the heart of this endeavor. Retellings of the past, narratives of the present, and new landscapes of the future, each explored in science fiction, allow for creative reimaginings of the capabilities, movements, and agency of youth. Core themes of generation, embodiment, family, identity, belonging, gender, and friendship traverse across the chapters and inform the contributors’ readings of various film, literature, television, and virtual media sources. Here, children and youth are heterogeneous, and agency as a central analytical concept is interrogated through interdisciplinary, intersectional, intergenerational, and posthuman analyses. The contributors argue that there is vast power in science fiction representations of children’s agency to challenge accepted notions of neoliberal agency, enhance understandings of agency in childhood studies, and further contextualize agency in the lives, voices, and cultures of youth.

Researching Children and Youth - Methodological Issues, Strategies, and Innovations (Hardcover): Ingrid E. Castro, Melissa... Researching Children and Youth - Methodological Issues, Strategies, and Innovations (Hardcover)
Ingrid E. Castro, Melissa Swauger, Brent Harger
R2,789 R1,653 Discovery Miles 16 530 Save R1,136 (41%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Researching Children and Youth: Methodological Issues, Strategies, and Innovations, part of the Sociological Studies of Children and Youth series, seeks to fill a void in current publications directly addressing the problems and pitfalls that often accompany researching children and youth in today's society. Sociologists face increasingly limited access to children and youth given their "vulnerable" status, growing requirements from Institutional Review Boards, and more restricted access from organizations and educational institutions. As a result, researchers must be creative in the pursuit of researching kids and teens. Chapters in this volume address such topics as participatory and feminist ethnographic approaches, digital mining, children's agency, and navigating IRBs. The importance of contextualizing sociological research with children with special consideration of space, location, and identity thematically runs throughout all of the contributions to this volume.

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