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Kids´ Media Culture
Kinder
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Description for Kids´ Media Culture
Paperback. Television shows, comic strips, video games, and other forms of media directed at children are the subject of frequent and rancorous debate. This volume examines the rise of mass media in postwar America. It focuses on television in schools and the ways that mass media convey messages about gender and socialisation. Editor(s): Kinder, Marsha. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 352 pages, 33 b&w photographs, 8 figures, 3 tables. BIC Classification: APF; APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
Television shows, comic strips, video games, and other forms of media directed at children are the subject of frequent and rancorous debate. In Kids’ Media Culture some of the most prominent cultural theorists of children’s media join forces with exciting new voices in the field to consider the production and consumption of media aimed at children. What’s good for kids and what’s merely exploitive? Are shows that attempt to level the socioeconomic playing field by educating children effective? The essays in this anthology tackle these questions and pose provocative new questions of their own.
As part of their argument ... Read more
Television shows, comic strips, video games, and other forms of media directed at children are the subject of frequent and rancorous debate. In Kids’ Media Culture some of the most prominent cultural theorists of children’s media join forces with exciting new voices in the field to consider the production and consumption of media aimed at children. What’s good for kids and what’s merely exploitive? Are shows that attempt to level the socioeconomic playing field by educating children effective? The essays in this anthology tackle these questions and pose provocative new questions of their own.
As part of their argument ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Console-ing Passions
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822323716
SKU
V9780822323716
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Ref
99-1
About Kinder
Marsha Kinder is Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. She is the author of a number of books, including Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games andRefiguring Spain: Cinema/Media/Representation, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews for Kids´ Media Culture
“Kids’ Media Culture is a significant contribution to one of the most important and fastest growing areas of scholarly concern in media and cultural studies—the theory and history of childhood and adolescence. An extremely impressive range of topics are covered: different media and consumption practices, different historical periods, and considerations of the complexities of gender, class, and race.”—Eric Smoodin, author ... Read more