Girls Series Fiction And American Popular Culture
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Girls Series Fiction and American Popular Culture
Author | : LuElla D'Amico |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2016-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781498517645 |
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This collection explores the influence of girls’ series books on popular American culture and girls’ everyday experiences. It explores the cultural work that the series genre performs, contemplating the books’ messages about subjects including race, gender, and education, and examines girl fiction within a variety of disciplinary contexts.
Girls Series Fiction and American Popular Culture
Author | : LuElla D'Amico |
Publsiher | : Children and Youth in Popular |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1498517633 |
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This collection explores the influence of girls' series books on popular American culture and girls' everyday experiences. It explores the cultural work that the series genre performs, contemplating the books' messages about subjects including race, gender, and education, and examines girl fiction within a variety of disciplinary contexts.
Representing Agency in Popular Culture
Author | : Ingrid E. Castro,Jessica Clark |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2018-12-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781498574952 |
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Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, identifying popular culture as an important source of inspiration and inquiry within the future of childhood studies.
Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction
Author | : Jennifer Harrison |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2019-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781498573368 |
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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.
Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction
Author | : Ingrid E. Castro,Jessica Clark |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781498597395 |
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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.
Tweencom Girls
Author | : Patrice A. Oppliger |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2018-12-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781498550598 |
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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.
Girls in Contemporary Vampire Fiction
Author | : Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2021-05-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783030717445 |
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This book explores the narratives of girlhood in contemporary YA vampire fiction, bringing into the spotlight the genre’s radical, ambivalent, and contradictory visions of young femininity. Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska considers less-explored popular vampire series for girls, particularly those by P.C. and Kristin Cast and Richelle Mead, tracing the ways in which they engage in larger cultural conversations on girlhood in the Western world. Mapping the interactions between girl and vampire corporealities, delving into the unconventional tales of vampire romance and girl sexual expressions, examining the narratives of women and violence, and venturing into the uncanny vampire classroom to unmask its critique of present-day schooling, the volume offers a new perspective on the vampire genre and an engaging insight into the complexities of growing up a girl.
Childhood Agency and Fantasy
Author | : Ingrid E. Castro |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781498594301 |
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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.