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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.
List of contents
Introduction
Debbie Olson Part One: Cultural Evolution1. Migration, Youth and Australian Television: Production, Policies, and Audiences
Kyle Harvey2.
Skippy the Bush Kangaroo: Idealism, 'Reality' and 1960s Australian Children's Television
Adrian Schober 3. I Know I Can Make it New:
Degrassi, Youth Television, and the Work of Staying Relevant
Andrea Ruehlicke 4. TV Horror for Children as Transnational Genre:
Round the Twist, Generic Subversions, and Quality Australian Children's Television
Jessica BalanzateguiPart Two: Television Programming and National Identities
5. Children's Maritime Television in Britain: Environment, Representation and Identity
Mark Fryers 6. "'Thunderbirds are Go!': Ideology and Representation in the Cold War Era
Fran Pheasant-Kelly7. A Socialist School Story: The Czechoslovak television series "My všichni školou povinní"
Martina Winkler Part Three: Televisual Style and National Identities
8. Aardman's Animal Farm: "Loaded" Livestock and Illustrative Aesthetics in
Shaun the Sheep (2007-2015)
Christopher Holliday 9. The Sound of Norwegian Children's Television: Narrating the Nation, Childhood and the Welfare State
Ingeborg Lunde Vestad Part Four: Child Agency
10. Representations of Childhood and "Modes of Address" in Palestinian and Pan-Arab Programs for Children
Feryal Awan 11. From
Quinceañera to
Miss XV: Coming of Age in Mexican Screen Melodrama
Sofia Rios 12. Gender, Ideology and Latin American Children's Animated Television
Milton Fernando Gozalez-Rodriguez
About the author
Debbie Olson is Associate Professor of English at Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Missouri.
Adrian Schober is a Teacher Librarian at Caroline Chisholm Catholic College, Melbourne.
Summary
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.
