From Superman to social realism : children's media and Scandinavian childhood /

From Superman to social realism : children's media and Scandinavian childhood /

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Author / Creator:	Strandgaard Jensen, Helle, author.
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Description:	xii, 188 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Children's literature, culture, and cognition, 2212-9006 ; volume 6 Children's literature, culture, and cognition ; v. 6.
Subject:	Mass media and children -- Scandinavia. Children's mass media -- Scandinavia. Social realism -- Scandinavia. Social values -- Scandinavia. Children's mass media. Mass media and children. Social realism. Social values. Scandinavia.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11036487

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ISBN:	9789027201607 9027201609
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Can children?s media be a source of education and empowerment? Or is the commercial media market a threat to their sense of social and democratic values? Such questions about the appropriateness children?s media consumption have recurred in public debates throughout the twentieth century. 'From Superman to Social Realism' provides an exciting new approach to the study of children?s media and childhood history, drawing on the theories of cross-media consumption and transnational history. Based on extensive Scandinavian source material, it explores public debates about children?s media between 1945 and 1985. Readers are taken on a fascinating journey through debates about superheroes in the 1950s, politicization of children?s media in the 1960s, and about television and social realism in the 1980s. Arguments are firmly contextualized in Scandinavian childhood and welfare history, an approach that demonstrates why professional and political groups have perceived children?s media as the key to the enculturation of future generations.
Other form:	Online version: Strandgaard Jensen, Helle author. From Superman to social realism. Amsterdam : Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017 9789027265746

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