ABSTRACT
This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the public consumption of changing ideas about children, childhood, and national identity, via a critical examination of programs that prominently feature children and youth in international television.
The chapters connect relevant cultural attitudes within their respective countries to an analysis of children and/or childhood in international children’s programming. The collection addresses how international children’s programming in global and local context informs changing ideas about children and childhood, including notions of individual and citizen identity formation.
Offering new insights into childhood and television studies, this book will be of great interest to graduate students, scholars, and professionals in television studies, childhood studies, media studies, cultural studies, popular culture studies, and American studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|80 pages
Cultural evolution
chapter 2|19 pages
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
chapter 3|18 pages
I Know I Can Make it New
chapter 4|20 pages
TV horror-fantasy for children as transnational genre
part II|60 pages
Television programming and national identities
chapter 5|20 pages
Children's maritime television in Britain
chapter 7|18 pages
A socialist school story
part III|46 pages
Televisual style and national identities
chapter 8|20 pages
Aardman's animal farm
chapter 9|24 pages
The sound of Norwegian children's television
part IV|49 pages
Child agency