Secret Identities and Double Lives on Tween TV

This book introduces readers to the concepts of tweenhood and television tropes by providing historical and theoretical contexts and reviewing the history of television targeted to tweens. It will benefit children's media researchers, media and communication, cultural studies, adolescent and child development.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Tweens, Teens, and TV
Chapter 3. Secret Identities
Chapter 4. Power
Chapter 5. Morality
Chapter 6. Friendship
Chapter 7. Romance
Chapter 8. Siblings
Chapter 9. Parents
Chapter 10. Extended Family and Mentors
Chapter 11. Revelation
Appendix
Index

About the author

Amy Richards Franzini is Professor of Communication Studies at Widener University, USA. She studies the representations of children, childhood, parents, and parenting in popular media. She has written chapters in the books Fleeting Images: Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture and Common Sense: Intelligence as Presented on Popular Television, and has articles published in Journal of Sex Research, Communication Teacher and Journal of Children and Media.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Richards (Widener University Franzini, Franzini Amy Richards
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032972695
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3297269-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Routledge Focus on Television Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, The arts, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Performing Arts / Television & Radio, Humanities, Child & developmental psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Communication Studies, Secondary Schools, Language: history & general works, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, Language: history and general works, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Genres / Children's