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The book puts together for the first time valuable updated information that looks at children's television from its early days up to the current digital age, with its vast digital media offerings and availability. It offers new insights about a central children's media culture and focuses on non-Anglo-American television histories. Thus, readers interested in understanding past to present, local and global processes in children's television, would be able to find it in one book. Scholars, students, and professionals working in the field of children, as well as everyone concerned with children's culture will find a great diversity of knowledge about the cultural, social, political, and economic contexts of programs with which they and their children have grown up.
This edited book is based on a collective effort of researchers and professionals dedicated to compiling the stories of children's television around the world. With 12 national chapters, the book includes historical accounts of children's television from the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Ecuador, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Kenia, Netherlands, and the United States. It provides an exploration of each individual country, revealing striking similarities and differences which are discussed in depth in the final chapter.
Looking at the global field through local eyes--its main texts and active players (broadcasters, producers, and creators, as well as regulators and policy makers), their ideologies, financial prospects, and perceptions of childhood--offers a macro-level evaluation of an entire cultural field. This is a valuable picture, as it also provides a contextualized perspective for reflection in any micro-analysis of specific programs.
List of contents
List of Illustrations - Acknowledgments - Yuval Gozansky: Introduction: Thinking About Local Histories of Children's Television - Anna Potter: What's up Skip? Australian Children's Drama as Part of a Children's Television Production Ecology - Beth Carmona: The Struggle for Quality in Children's Television in Brazil - Adrianna Ruggiero/Kim Wilson/Josanne Buchanan: Canada's Secret Sauce: Children's Programming, Funding, and Animation - Xiaoying Han: Entertaining "Buds of the Motherland": The Evolution and Commercialization of Children's Television in China - Mónica Maruri Castillo/Marcelo Del Pozo: Toward a History of Children's Television in Ecuador: This Is Not a Child's Game - Maya Götz: From the Center of Public Discussion to Niche Programing: Children's Television in the Two Germanies Made One - Ruchi Kher Jaggi: The Untold Story of Children's Television in India - Yuval Gozansky: From Instructional to Digital: Israeli Children's Television - Piermarco Aroldi: Balancing Cultural and Economic Value: The Italian Way to Children's Television (1954-2021) - Wangeci Kanyeki/Agnes Lucy Lando: The Kenyan Story: From Children's Talent Performance to Edutainment - Huub Wijfjes: Education, Entertainment, and Connection: Seventy Years of Dutch Children's Television - Linda Simensky: Disruption Tales: Animated Children's Television in the United States - Yuval Gozansky: Similar but Different: Changes in Children's Television from a Global Perspective - List of Contributors - Index.
About the author
Yuval Gozansky (Ph.D.) is a Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Communications Department at Sapir Academic College, Israel. He heads the Research Center of Media for Children and Youth. He is editor of Misgerot Media (Media Frames), the academic journal of the Israel Communication Association (IsCA). Prior to his academic career he was a director of numerus television programs for children.
