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Few crimes provoke the collective fear, public outrage, and media
fascination that child abductions do. Stories about missing
children capture national headlines and dominate public discourses
about crime and deviance, child safety, parenting, the American
family, and gender and sexuality. Snatched is the first book-length
study to interrogate the predominant myths centered on gender and
class that shaped mainstream U.S. news coverage of kidnappings in
the 2000s. Through an exploration of hundreds of reports from
newspapers, news magazines, television broadcasts, and web stories,
Snatched critically analyzes how news narratives construct the
phenomenon of child abductions, the young girls and boys who fall
victim, the male perpetrators of these horrific crimes, and the
adult victims of long-term abductions who were found years later.
The book's interdisciplinary nature, methodological rigor, and
thorough investigation into some of the most riveting and revolting
crimes of the last decade make Snatched a worthy, important, and
timely contribution to the fields of media studies and girlhood
studies.
Few crimes provoke the collective fear, public outrage, and media
fascination that child abductions do. Stories about missing
children capture national headlines and dominate public discourses
about crime and deviance, child safety, parenting, the American
family, and gender and sexuality. Snatched is the first book-length
study to interrogate the predominant myths centered on gender and
class that shaped mainstream U.S. news coverage of kidnappings in
the 2000s. Through an exploration of hundreds of reports from
newspapers, news magazines, television broadcasts, and web stories,
Snatched critically analyzes how news narratives construct the
phenomenon of child abductions, the young girls and boys who fall
victim, the male perpetrators of these horrific crimes, and the
adult victims of long-term abductions who were found years later.
The book's interdisciplinary nature, methodological rigor, and
thorough investigation into some of the most riveting and revolting
crimes of the last decade make Snatched a worthy, important, and
timely contribution to the fields of media studies and girlhood
studies.
Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and
Identity Formation makes an examination of contemporary celebrity
culture with an emphasis on how young celebrities are manufactured,
how fan communities are cultivated, and how young audiences consume
and aspire to fame. This book foregrounds considerations of
diversity within celebrity and fan cultures, and takes an
international perspective on the production of stardom. Chapters
include interviews with professional athletes in the United States
about their experiences with stardom after coming out as gay, and
interviews with young people in Europe about their consumption of
celebrity and aspirations of achieving fame via social media. Other
chapters include interviews with young Canadian women that
illuminate the potential influence of famous feminists on audience
political engagement, and critical analysis of media narratives
about race, happiness, cultural appropriation, and popular
feminisms. The current anthology brings together scholarship from
Canada, the United States, Spain, and Portugal to demonstrate the
pervasive reach of global celebrity, as well as the commonality of
youth experiences with celebrity in diverse cultural settings.
Celebrity and Youth: Mediated Audiences, Fame Aspirations, and
Identity Formation makes an examination of contemporary celebrity
culture with an emphasis on how young celebrities are manufactured,
how fan communities are cultivated, and how young audiences consume
and aspire to fame. This book foregrounds considerations of
diversity within celebrity and fan cultures, and takes an
international perspective on the production of stardom. Chapters
include interviews with professional athletes in the United States
about their experiences with stardom after coming out as gay, and
interviews with young people in Europe about their consumption of
celebrity and aspirations of achieving fame via social media. Other
chapters include interviews with young Canadian women that
illuminate the potential influence of famous feminists on audience
political engagement, and critical analysis of media narratives
about race, happiness, cultural appropriation, and popular
feminisms. The current anthology brings together scholarship from
Canada, the United States, Spain, and Portugal to demonstrate the
pervasive reach of global celebrity, as well as the commonality of
youth experiences with celebrity in diverse cultural settings.
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