Representing Agency in Popular Culture

Representing Agency in Popular Culture

by Michelle Nicole Boyer-KellyDavid Buckingham Shih-Wen Sue Chen and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 20/12/2018

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Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives, this book places popular culture and representation as central to this endeavor. Core themes of family, gender, temporality, politics, education, technology, disability, conflict, identity, ethnicity, and friendship traverse across the chapters, framed through various film, television, literature, and virtual media sources. Here, childhood is considered far from homogeneous and the dominance of neoliberal models of agency is questioned by intersectional and intergenerational analyses. This book posits there is vast power in popular culture representations of children’s agency, and interrogation of these themes through interdisciplinary lenses is vital to furthering knowledge and understanding about children’s lives and within childhood studies.

ISBN:
9781498574952
9781498574952
Category:
Children‰Ûªs & teenage literature studies
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
20-12-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Lexington Books
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John Kerr is a bestselling author, book seller, editor, and publisher. Having worked as a police and court reporter, in recent years John has become one of Australia’s leading writers on crime.

His 2022 book, The Big Folbigg Mistake, was a critical success and helped drawn attention to the terrible miscarriage of justice Kathleen Folbigg suffered resulting from the judiciary’s ignorant dismissal of top scientific evidence.

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