Children, youth, and American television:

This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the changing ideas about children and childhood in the United States. Each chapter connects relevant events, attitudes, or anxieties in American culture to an analysis of children or childhood in select American television progra...

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Other Authors: Olson, Debbie 1961- (Editor), Schober, Adrian 1974- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Routledge 2018
Series:Routledge advances in television studies
Routledge advances in television studies
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the changing ideas about children and childhood in the United States. Each chapter connects relevant events, attitudes, or anxieties in American culture to an analysis of children or childhood in select American television programs. The essays in this collection explore historical intersections of the family with expectations of childhood, particularly innocence, economic and material conditions, and emerging political and social realities that, at times, present unique challenges to America's children and the collective expectation of what childhood should be
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780429470233
0429470231
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9780429893117
9780429893124
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