Patricia Holland

Picturing Childhood (eBook, PDF)

The Myth of the Child in Popular Imagery

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Whether controversial or taken for granted, pictures of children are everywhere - in magazines, newspapers and advertisements, on greetings cards and the Internet. "Picturing Childhood" demonstrates how these familiar images reveal a view of childhood which is constantly changing. With debates over children's rights in the 1970s, child sexual abuse in the 1980s, violent children in the 1990s and precocity and consumerism in the 2000s, the traditional image of childhood innocence survives only as a form of kitsch. Using images from a wide variety of sources, this text considers the popular imagery in relation to news, education, welfare, charity and consumerism and asks what implications does all this have for the ways in which children themselves are treated?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 215
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857715647
• Artikelnr.: 39141280

Autorenporträt

Pat Holland is a freelance writer, lecturer and researcher in the history of television, photography and representations of childhood. Her publications include 'Family Snaps' (as co-editor), 'The Television Handbook' and forthcoming from I.B. Tauris, a study of 'This Week' and television current affairs.