Representing Agency in Popular Culture

Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between
Herausgeber: Castro, Ingrid E.; Clark, Jessica

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Produktbeschreibung

Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children's lives, identifying popular culture as an important source of inspiration and inquiry within the future of childhood studies.

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Produktdetails

• Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9781498574969
• ISBN-10: 1498574963
• Artikelnr.: 61998580

Autorenporträt

Ingrid E. Castro is professor of sociology and director of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Jessica Clark is senior lecturer in sociology and childhood studies at the University of Suffolk.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Jessica Clark and Ingrid E. Castro - Zuzu's Petals and Scout's
Mockingbirds: The Legacy of Children's Agency in Popular Culture
Part I: Political Agency
Chapter 1: Catherine Hartung - "To All the Little Girls. . .Never Doubt
that You are Valuable and Powerful": Representations of Children's Agency
in the Pop Culture Politics of the Trump Era
Chapter 2: Fearghus Roulston and Lucy Newby - Innocent Victims and Troubled
Combatants: Representations of Childhood and Adolescence in Post-Conflict
Northern Irish Cinema Era
Chapter 3: John C. Nelson - "Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves":
Agency and Dehumanization of Children During Wartime
Part II: Social Agency
Chapter 4: Anja Höing - Animalic Agency: Intersecting the Child and the
Animal in Popular British Children's Fiction
Chapter 5: Michael G. Cornelius - Homogeneity, Agency, and the Girls'
College Series, 1905-1925
Chapter 6: Terri Suico - Fractured Friendships and Finding Oneself:
Adolescent Girls Losing Friends but Finding Their Voices in Recent Young
Adult Literature
Chapter 7: Jessica Clark - "Speddies" with Spray Paints: Intersections of
Agency, Childhood, and Disability in Award-Winning Young Adult Fiction
Chapter 8: Tabitha Parry Collins, Mary L. Fahrenbruck, and Leanna Lucero -
Trans Reality: The Development of Agency in Trans*gender and Gender Fluid
Characters in Young Adult Novels
Part III: Generational Agency
Chapter 9: Michelle Nicole Boyer-Kelly - M¿ori Agents of Change: Examining
the Children of Whale Rider, Once Were Warriors, and Potiki
Chapter 10: Shih-Wen Sue Chen and Sin Wen Lau - Children's Agency and the
Notion of Guai in Chinese Reality TV
Chapter 11: John Kerr - Children Redefining Adult Reality in Maternal
Gothic Films
Chapter 12: Ingrid E. Castro - The Spirit and the Witch: Hayao Miyazaki's
Agentic Girls and Their (Intra)Independent Genderational Childhoods
Afterword
David Buckingham -Agency and Representation in Children's Media Culture