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Cinema U (Paperback)
Randy Laist, Kip Kline
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R704
Discovery Miles 7 040
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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.
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.
Baudrillard, Youth, and American Film examines the portrayal of
youth in American cinema with Jean Baudrillard's radical social
theory and philosophical system. Kline uses Baudrillard's corpus to
analyze the troubling effects of the portrayal of youth in American
teen films, namely, its contribution to discursive violence against
young people which holds such a prominent place in many
adult-controlled, modern institutions like schools. This kind of
violence has multiple iterations, including the inability to
imagine youth as meaningful political actors, the insistence on
taking teenagers to be morally impoverished, and the propensity for
viewing young people as thoroughly heteronomous. While there are
certainly pockets of exception, violent discourses often animate
institutional disregard for youth. Kline promotes Baudrillard's
fatal theory as a way for critical educators, philosophers,
sociologists, and other concerned pedagogues to argue for an
alteration in the way that youth is portrayed in American films,
and to discourage the negative discourse that have colonized
conceptions and treatment of young people.
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