The Cultural Significance of the Child Star by Jane Catherine O'connor

The Cultural Significance of the Child Star by Jane Catherine O'connor

In this book, Jane O'Connor explores the paradoxical status of the child star who is both adored and reviled in contemporary society.

"The Cultural Significance of the Child Star is an important new work in the sociology of childhoodO'Connor takes a unique approach to analyzing child stars that is both theoretically well grounded and thoroughly entertaining."

- Karen Sternheimer, University of Southern California, author of Kids These Days: Facts and Fictions About Today’s Youth and It's Not the Media: The Truth About Pop Culture's Influence on Children

"Jane O'Connor's book adds useful empirical material to research on celebrity culture and provides a convincing argument about the importance of child celebrities."

- Momin Rahman, Trent University, Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2008

Dr. Jane O’Connor is Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at Wolverhampton University. She has a BSc in Applied Psychology and Sociology, a Masters degree in Sociology of Contemporary Culture and a PhD in Childhood Studies from Brunel University. She writes extensively in the area of Sociology of Childhood and is presently involved in a major research project investigating cultural differences in children’s conceptions of cleverness.

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ISBN 13	9780415542678
ISBN 10	0415542677
Title	The Cultural Significance of the Child Star
Author	Jane Catherine O'connor
Series	Routledge Advances In Sociology
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2012-02-23
Number of pages	176
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