The Visual Cultures of Childhood - Film and Television from The Magic Lantern To Teen Vloggers

This innovative book gives a historical and geographic perspective on visual cultures of childhood, looking at representation as well as media effects.

List of contents

1. Visual Political Culture, Childhood and Youth: From Object to Subject to Activist
2. The Emergence of a Sentimental Visual Culture
3. 'And Then the Kids Took it Over': Documentary Film, Racism and the Civil Rights Movement
4. The Melodrama of Being a Child: NGO Representations of Poverty
5. 'You Need to be Glad That You Graduated from High School, and That You're Alive at Eighteen': Coming-Of-Age in Black Film
6. We've Got a Bright Place in the Sun: LGBTQ Coming Out and Teen Melodrama
7. 'I'd Be Lost Without the Weight of You Two on My Back': Working Class Teens and the Western
8. 'On Being the Representation'
9. 'We the Wounded': Violence and Citizenship
10. Theorising Childhood, Visual Culture, and Technology

About the author

Karen Wells is Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography, Birkbeck, University of London.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Wells Karen Wells, Wells Karen
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2020
• EAN: 9781786611031
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-103-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 449 g
• Illustrations: 9 b/w photos; 1 tables
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Educational strategies & policy, Early childhood care & education, Pre-school & kindergarten, Early childhood care and education