Karen Wells Karen Wells

The Visual Cultures of Childhood

Film and Television from The Magic Lantern To Teen Vloggers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative book gives a historical and geographic perspective on visual cultures of childhood, looking at representation as well as media effects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9781538148235
• ISBN-10: 1538148234
• Artikelnr.: 64991709

Autorenporträt

Karen Wells is Professor in Human Geography (International Development and Childhood Studies) at Birkbeck, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

1. Visual Political Culture, Childhood and Youth: From Object to Subject to
Activist
2. The Emergence of a Sentimental Visual Culture
3. 'And Then the Kids Took it Over': Documentary Film, Racism and the Civil
Rights Movement
4. The Melodrama of Being a Child: NGO Representations of Poverty
5. 'You Need to be Glad That You Graduated from High School, and That
You're Alive at Eighteen': Coming-Of-Age in Black Film
6. We've Got a Bright Place in the Sun: LGBTQ Coming Out and Teen Melodrama
7. 'I'd Be Lost Without the Weight of You Two on My Back': Working Class
Teens and the Western
8. 'On Being the Representation'
9. 'We the Wounded': Violence and Citizenship
10. Theorising Childhood, Visual Culture, and Technology