Tweencom Girls

Author : Patrice A. Oppliger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498550598

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Tweencom Girls by Patrice A. Oppliger Pdf

Tweencom Girls analyzes the different ways character tropes are portrayed in media targeted at eight- to twelve-year-olds, particularly female characters, over the last twenty-five years. The book focuses particularly on sitcoms produced by the cable giants Disney Channel and Nickelodeon because of their popularity and ubiquity. It provides extensive examples and alternative interpretations of the shows’ tropes and themes, particularly for those who are unfamiliar with the genre. The first section explores common tweencom tropes, focusing on different themes that are prevalent throughout the series. The second section includes a discussion of the big picture of how tropes and themes give insight into the female characters portrayed in the popular tweencom programming, as well as advice to parents and educators.

Author : Karima K. Jeffrey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : African American women in motion pictures
ISBN : 9781793627049

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Speculative Film and Moving Images by Or about Black Women and Girls by Karima K. Jeffrey Pdf

This book examines twentieth and twenty-first century speculative fiction films that represent women and girls of African descent Jeffrey offers insights about positive developments while calling attention to questionable trends in recent movie-making.

Author : Ann Kordas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498570183

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Female Adolescent Sexuality in the United States, 1850–1965 by Ann Kordas Pdf

This book examines the history of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from the middle of the nineteenth century until the beginning of the 1960s. The book analyzes both adult perceptions of female adolescent sexuality and the experiences of female adolescents themselves. It examines what girls knew (or thought they knew) about sex at different points in time, girls’ sexual experiences, girls' ideas about love and romance, female adolescent beauty culture, and the influence of popular culture on female adolescent sexuality. It also examines the ways in which adults responded to female adolescent sexuality and the efforts of adults to either control or encourage girls' interest in sexual topics, dating, girls’ participation in beauty culture, and their education on sexual topics. The book describes a trajectory along which female adolescents went from being perceived as inherently innocent and essentially asexual to being regarded (and feared) as primarily sexual in nature.

Author : LuElla D'Amico,Emily Hamilton-Honey
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666946680

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Beyond Nancy Drew by LuElla D'Amico,Emily Hamilton-Honey Pdf

This book examines the narratives of series heroines that preceded and followed Nancy Drew, each in relation to their social, historical, and economic environments. Covering heroines including Miss Pickerell, Madge Sterling, and Polly the Powers Model, among others, this book illustrates that the recovery of stolen inheritances during the Great Depression serves different social ends than, for example, fighting Germans on an international stage. This book expands scholarship that tends to focus on Nancy Drew by drawing attention to the stories of some other “lost” heroines of twentieth century U.S. series fiction. Organized by time period, the chapters give insight into the cultural landscape that perpetuated the popularity of these heroines in their respective eras, how these series reflected the experiences of readers across the decades, and their continued impact well into the twenty-first century.

Author : Jennifer Harrison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498573368

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Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction by Jennifer Harrison Pdf

If there is one trend in children’s and YA literature that seems to be enjoying a steady rise in popularity, it is the expansion of the YA dystopian genre. While the genre has been lauded for its potential to expand horizons, promote critical thinking, and foster social awareness and activism, it has also come under scrutiny for its promotion of specific ideologies and its often sensationalist approach to real-world problems. In an examination of six YA dystopian texts spanning more than twenty years of development of the genre, this book explores the way in which posthumanist ideologies in particular are deployed or resisted in these texts as a means of making sense of the specific challenges which young people confront in the twenty-first century.

Author : Ingrid E. Castro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498594301

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Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy by Ingrid E. Castro Pdf

Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children’s agency and fantasy. Fantasy as an integral aspect of childhood and as a genre allows for children’s spectacular dreams and hopeful realities. Friendship, family, identity, loyalty, belongingness, citizenry, and emotionality are central concepts explored in chapters that are anchored by humanities texts of television, film, and literature, but also by social science qualitative methods of participant observation and interviews. Fantasy has the capacity to be a revolutionary change agent that in its modernity can creatively reflect, critique, or reimagine the social, political, and cultural norms of our world. Such promise is also found to be true of children’s agency, wherein children’s beings and becomings, rooted in childhood’s freedoms and constraints, result in a range of outcomes. In the endeavor to broaden theory and research on children’s agency, fantasy becomes a point of possibility with its expanding subjectivities, far-reaching terrain, and spirit of adventure.

Author : James M. Curtis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666940268

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Childhood and Innocence in American Culture by James M. Curtis Pdf

This collection approaches the deconstruction of American "childhood" from a wide variety of critical, interdisciplinary lenses and gestures toward the construction of a more realistic, twenty-first century definition of "childhood"--one which is defined by the real-life struggles of childhood and not by romanticized notions of "innocence."

Author : Ingrid E. Castro,Jessica Clark
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498597395

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Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction by Ingrid E. Castro,Jessica Clark Pdf

This collection merges representations of children and youth in various science fiction texts with childhood studies theories and debates. Set in the past, present, and future, science fiction landscapes and technologies sometimes constrain, but often expand, agentic expression, movement, and collaboration.

Author : Debbie Olson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666918687

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Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television by Debbie Olson Pdf

This collection examines the child’s role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the “rightness” of past systems of social order.

Author : Stephen M. Zimmerly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498586801

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The Sidekick Comes of Age by Stephen M. Zimmerly Pdf

Literary sidekicks like Dr. Watson and Robin the Boy Wonder have not been the singular subject of a significant critical study—until now. Using young adult literature (YA) to study the sidekick reveals new and exciting ways to understand these kinds of characters and this kind of literature. YA has embraced the sidekick, recognizing the way the character reflects the importance of growth and finding one’s place in the world. The nature of many YA texts allows sidekicks to grow beyond literary or historical origins. This includes letting sidekicks “evolve” over the course of multiple texts, using parallel novels to add complexity to a sidekick’s characterization, and telling a story from the sidekick’s perspective, paradoxically making the sidekick the hero. A singularly focused and prolonged study helps to establish sidekick scholarship as a burgeoning field in and of itself.

Author : Laura A. Brown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793622082

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School Gun Violence in YA Literature by Laura A. Brown Pdf

Since Columbine, the topic of school shootings has become ever more prevalent in the media, in research, and in fiction. This book provides analyses of several Young Adult (YA) texts about school shootings and uncovers how the authors represent such violence (and those who perpetrate it) while developing stories that effectively speak to their adolescent readers. Employing Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, Laura A. Brown examines how the texts frame particular settings and events as important to the development of young people as a way of accounting for the shootings. Likewise, psychologist Peter Langman’s classification of the three populations of school shooters is utilized as a framework to analyze the characterization of fictional shooters in the texts. The author argues that these texts, while not easy to read, are important, as they problematize the ways we think about, approach, and react to school shootings and the students who commit such acts.

Author : Laura Mattoon D'Amore
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793630612

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Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny by Laura Mattoon D'Amore Pdf

This interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between violence, empowerment, and the teenage super/heroine in comics and young adult fantasy novels. The author analyzes stories of teenage super/heroines who have experienced trauma, abduction, assault, and sexual violence that has led to a loss of agency, and then tracks the way that their use of violence empowers them to reclaim agency over their lives and bodies. The author identifies these characters as vigilante feminist teenage super/heroines because they become vigilantes in order to protect other girls and young women from violence and create safer communities. The teenage super/heroines examined in this book are characters who have the ability—through super power, or supernatural and magical ability—to fight back against those who seek to cause them harm. They are a product of and a response to both the pervasive culture of violence against girls and women and a system that fails to protect girls and women from harm. While this book is part of a robust intellectual conversation about the role of girls and women in popular literature and culture and about feminist analyses of comics and YA literature, it is unique in its reading of violence as empowerment and in its careful tracing—and naming—of the teenage vigilante super/heroine, a characterization that is hugely popular and deserves this close reading.

Author : Marco Ramírez Rojas,Pilar Osorio Lora
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666916881

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Growing up in Latin America by Marco Ramírez Rojas,Pilar Osorio Lora Pdf

Growing up in Latin America contributes to the growing body of scholarship on the representation of children and minors in contemporary Latin American literature and film. This volume looks closely at the question of agency and the role of minors as active participants in the complex historical processes of the Latin American continent during the 20th and 21st centuries, both as national citizens and as transnational migrants. Questions of gender, migration, violence, post-coloniality, and precarity are central to the analysis of childhood and youth narratives in this collection of essays.

Author : Benjamin Errett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780399183454

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Elements of Taste by Benjamin Errett Pdf

From My Little Pony to the Sex Pistols: An engaging exploration of why we love what we love Katy Perry. Wes Anderson. Coldplay. Star Wars. Hamilton. Gilmore Girls. We all have our most and least favorite things. But why? In this smart, funny, and well-researched book, Benjamin Errett brings together the latest findings from the worlds of psychology, criticism, neuroscience, market research, and more to examine what taste really means—and what it can teach us about ourselves. Covering kitsch, nostalgia, snobbery, bad taste, George Michael, and what it means to be “basic,” this is the ultimate read for anyone who devours popular and not-so-popular culture.

Author : George GROTE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025146636

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Plato, and the other Companions of Sokrates, etc by George GROTE Pdf