New Directions in Childhood Studies by Imogen Nutting
New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century acknowledges that the conceptual frameworks for understanding the experience of childhood in the twentieth century are no longer adequate and offers important updates to the construct of American childhood. The chapters in this collection examine contemporary children’s literature, film, and video games to explore the ways in which everyday realities like trauma, disaster, and death impact the experience of childhood in America today. In many ways, the essays show, the narratives blur traditional lines between children’s and adult content, taking children series as subjects while also guiding them through the processes of dealing with the particular challenges. Collectively, the essays develop a more contemporary construct of the American child and offer new insights into what that construction might mean for contemporary American society and culture.-
The Sidekick Comes of Age
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The Coloniality of Animal Monstrous Othering in Children's Books, Films, and Toys
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Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King
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Tweencom Girls
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Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of Interdisciplinarity
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Female Adolescent Sexuality in the United States, 1850-1965
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Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture
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The Americas Award
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The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature
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The Feeling Child
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Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny
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Growing up in Latin America
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Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy
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Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction
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Indians in Victorian Children's Narratives
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Misfit Children
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Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction
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The Child in World Cinema
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Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg
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Cold War Children's Television
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School Gun Violence in YA Literature
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Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television
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Childhood and Innocence in American Culture
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Beyond Nancy Drew
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Representing Agency in Popular Culture
Boldly confronting and reconsidering what it means for contemporary children to see themselves in books, the essays in this carefully conceived and well-organized volume take literary criticism of youth literature in new and exciting directionsEach entry draws upon relevant interdisciplinary sources to interrogate how the diverse texts under study push against outdated constructions of childhood, effectively delivering on the promise of the volume’s title. Both veteran and emergent scholars will indeed come away with new ways to think about the ‘mirrors’ of childhood on offer in 21st century books, films, and video games. -- Karen Coats, University of Cambridge
James M. Curtis is instructor of English at Louisiana State University Shreveport.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781666940282 |
| ISBN 10 | 1666940283 |
| Title | New Directions in Childhood Studies |
| Author | James M Curtis |
| Series | Children And Youth In Popular Culture |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 2024-01-08 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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