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Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for
nearly a century. From Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid, Winsor
McCay's Little Nemo, and Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie to
Herge's Tintin (Belgium), Jose Escobar's Zipi and Zape (Spain), and
Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz (Germany), iconic child characters
have given both kids and adults not only hours of entertainment but
also an important vehicle for exploring children's lives and the
sometimes challenging realities that surround them. Bringing
together comic studies and childhood studies, this pioneering
collection of essays provides the first wide-ranging account of how
children and childhood, as well as the larger cultural forces
behind their representations, have been depicted in comics from the
1930s to the present. The authors address issues such as how comics
reflect a spectrum of cultural values concerning children,
sometimes even resisting dominant cultural constructions of
childhood; how sensitive social issues, such as racial
discrimination or the construction and enforcement of gender roles,
can be explored in comics through the use of child characters; and
the ways in which comics use children as metaphors for other issues
or concerns. Specific topics discussed in the book include
diversity and inclusiveness in Little Audrey comics of the 1950s
and 1960s, the fetishization of adolescent girls in Japanese manga,
the use of children to build national unity in Finnish wartime
comics, and how the animal/child hybrids in Sweet Tooth act as a
metaphor for commodification.
Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for
nearly a century. From Richard Outcault's Yellow Kid, Winsor
McCay's Little Nemo, and Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie to
Herge's Tintin (Belgium), Jose Escobar's Zipi and Zape (Spain), and
Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz (Germany), iconic child characters
have given both kids and adults not only hours of entertainment but
also an important vehicle for exploring children's lives and the
sometimes challenging realities that surround them. Bringing
together comic studies and childhood studies, this pioneering
collection of essays provides the first wide-ranging account of how
children and childhood, as well as the larger cultural forces
behind their representations, have been depicted in comics from the
1930s to the present. The authors address issues such as how comics
reflect a spectrum of cultural values concerning children,
sometimes even resisting dominant cultural constructions of
childhood; how sensitive social issues, such as racial
discrimination or the construction and enforcement of gender roles,
can be explored in comics through the use of child characters; and
the ways in which comics use children as metaphors for other issues
or concerns. Specific topics discussed in the book include
diversity and inclusiveness in Little Audrey comics of the 1950s
and 1960s, the fetishization of adolescent girls in Japanese manga,
the use of children to build national unity in Finnish wartime
comics, and how the animal/child hybrids in Sweet Tooth act as a
metaphor for commodification.
Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find
themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This
volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores
the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the
processes and conditions that produce misfits, the means that
enable them to undo their denomination as misfits, and the
practices that turn those who fit into misfits, and vice versa.
This collection of essays on misfit children produces transmissible
motions across and engages in scholarly conversations that unfold
betwixt and between in order to make rigid concepts twist and
twirl, and ultimately fail to fit.
The child in many post-apocalyptic films occupies a unique space
within the narrative, a space that oscillates between death and
destruction, faith and hope. The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema
interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also
loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a
dystopian framework we may better understand how and why
traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites
of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often functions
to reaffirm the "rightness" of past systems of social order. This
collection features critical articles that explore the role of the
child character in post-apocalyptic cinema, including classic,
recent, and international films, approached from a variety of
theoretical, methodological, and cultural perspectives.
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