{"product_id":"9781501308628","title":"Kidding Around The Child in Film and Media","description":"\u003ch1\u003eKidding Around\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Child in Film and Media\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAlexander N. Howe | Wynn Yarbrough\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Media Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eKidding Around: The Child in Film and Media\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of essays generated by a conference of the same title held at the University of the District of Columbia. The works gathered examine a variety of children's media, including texts produced for children (e.g., children's books, cartoons, animated films) as well as texts about children(e.g., feature-length films, literature, playground architecture, parenting guides). The primary goal of \u003ci\u003eKidding Around\u003c\/i\u003e is to analyze and contextualize contested representations of childhood and children in various twentieth- and twenty-first-century media while accounting for the politics of these narratives. Each of the essays gathered offers a critical history of the very notion of childhood, at the same time as it analyzes exemplary children's texts from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These chapters depart from various methodological approaches (including psychoanalytic, sociological, ecological, and historical perspectives), offering the reader numerous productive approaches for analyzing the moments of cultural conflict and impasse found within the primary works studied. Despite the fact that today children are one of the most coveted demographics in marketing and viewership, academic work on children's media, and children in media, is just beginning. \u003ci\u003eKidding Around\u003c\/i\u003e assembles experts from this inchoate field, opening discussion to traditional and non-traditional children's texts.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexander N. Howe is Associate Professor of English at the University of the District of Columbia, USA. He is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eMarcia Muller and the Female Private Eye: Essays on the Novels that Defined a Subgenre \u003c\/i\u003e(2009) and author of \u003ci\u003eIt Didn't Mean Anything: A Psychoanalytic Reading of American Detective Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (2008). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWynn Yarbrough is Associate Professor and chair of the English Department at the University of the District of Columbia, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMasculinity in Children's Animal Stories, 1888-1928: A Critical Study of Anthropomorphic Tales by Wilde, Kipling, Potter, Grahame and Milne \u003c\/i\u003e(2011) and\u003ci\u003e A Boy's Dream \u003c\/i\u003e(2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27 August 2015\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781501308628\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e248\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331632103564,"sku":"9781501308628","price":47.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_de0a101f-926f-4ae7-94fb-c7ae60c55479.jpg?v=1783597985","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781501308628","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}