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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: In front of the children. London : British Film Institute, 1995 (OCoLC)603903369 Online version: In front of the children. London : British Film Institute, 1995 (OCoLC)608179589 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Cary Bazalgette; David Buckingham; British Film Institute. |
| ISBN: | 0851704522 9780851704524 0851704530 9780851704531 |
| OCLC Number: | 32747379 |
| Description: | xii, 220 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The invisible audience / Cary Bazalgette and David Buckingham -- Babes 'n' the hood : pre-school television and its audiences in the United States and Britain / Maire Messenger Davies -- Watching with mother in the early 1950's / David Oswell -- On the impossibility of children's television : the case of Timmy Mallett / David Buckingham -- "The power is yours" : agency and plot in Captain Planet / Greg Myers -- Home alone in the 90s : generational war and transgenerational address in American movies, television and presidential politics / Marsha Kinder -- Unshrinking the kids : children's cinema and the family film / Cary Bazalgette and Terry Staples -- Once upon a time beyond Disney : contemporary fairy-tale films for children / Jack Zipes -- Turtle power : illusion and imagination in children's play / Cathy Urwin -- Room to dance : girls' play and The little mermaid / Chris Richards -- The empire of play : emergent genres of product-based animations / Stephen C. Kline -- Toy-based video for girls : My little pony / Ellen Seiter -- Mortal Kombat and computer game girls / Helen Cunningham -- Very nearly in front of the children : the story of Alternity / Martin Barker |
| Responsibility: | edited by Cary Bazalgette and David Buckingham. |
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Abstract:
These essays by British and American writers, including Jack Zipes, Martin Barker and Maire Messenger Davies, explore such questions as: what is the appeal of "Ninja Turtles" or "My Little Pony"? What are the "Home Alone" movies really about? And does Disney liberate or enslave the imagination?
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