The Sidekick Comes of Age

Stephen M Zimmerly

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Literary sidekicks like Dr. Watson and Robin the Boy Wonder have not been the singular subject of a significant critical study--until now. Using young... Lees meer

The Feeling Child

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• This edited volume, working within the specific frame of the 'affective turn' in the study of contemporary sociocultural settings across Latin America... Lees meer

Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• This collection examines the representation of children in contemporary apocalyptic films and television, arguing that they inhabit conflicting roles ... Lees meer

Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• This unique and timely collection examines childhood and the child character throughout Stephen King's works, from his early novels and short stories,... Lees meer

The Américas Award

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• This edited volume performs a critical analysis of the Américas Award, issues related to the content of the award-winning and honored books, and the c... Lees meer

The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature is an edited volume with contributions from established and new scholars of rhetoric offering case studi... Lees meer

School Gun Violence in YA Literature

Laura A Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Since Columbine, the topic of school shootings has become ever more prevalent in the media, in research, and in fiction. This book provides analyses o... Lees meer

The Sidekick Comes of Age

Stephen M Zimmerly

• Paperback | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Literary sidekicks like Dr. Watson and Robin the Boy Wonder have not been the singular subject of a significant critical study--until now. Using young... Lees meer

Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy

• Paperback | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other... Lees meer

Representing Agency in Popular Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings ... Lees meer

The Child in World Cinema

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Ea... Lees meer

Tweencom Girls

Patrice A Oppliger

• Paperback | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• This book looks at the portrayals of girls on Disney and Nickelodeon tweencoms. It covers character tropes like main girls, mean girls, cheerleaders, ... Lees meer

Growing up in Latin America

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Growing up in Latin America is a collection of essays centered on the representation of the political and historical agency of children and youth with... Lees meer

The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature is an edited volume with contributions from established and new scholars of rhetoric offering case studi... Lees meer

Representing Agency in Popular Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Representing Agency in Popular Culture addresses the intersection of child and youth agency and popular culture. Here, scholars expand understandings ... Lees meer

Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction

• Paperback | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children's and youth's agency with the popular cul... Lees meer

Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny

Laura Mattoon D'Amore

• Paperback | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• This book tracks the vigilante feminist teenage super/heroine in comics and YA literature, a character who acts as a vigilante on behalf of the protec... Lees meer

Tweencom Girls

Patrice A Oppliger

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• This book looks at the portrayals of girls on Disney and Nickelodeon tweencoms. It covers character tropes like main girls, mean girls, cheerleaders, ... Lees meer

Female Adolescent Sexuality in the United States, 1850-1965

Ann Kordas

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• This book studies the development of expressions of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from 1850 to 1965. It suggests that during this t... Lees meer

Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children's and youth's agency with the popular cul... Lees meer

Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic... Lees meer

Posthumanist Readings in Dystopian Young Adult Fiction

Jennifer Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• This book explores the deployment of posthumanist ideology in young adult dystopian fiction. It applies this theory to the presentation of social issu... Lees meer

Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic... Lees meer

Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny

Laura Mattoon D'Amore

• Hardcover | Engels | Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• This book tracks the vigilante feminist teenage super/heroine in comics and YA literature, a character who acts as a vigilante on behalf of the protec... Lees meer