Cargando…
Square Eyes : Children, Television and Fun.
If our toddlers had been outside playing in the 'fresh air', speaking words precociously or giggling with delight at something 'real', we would have happily celebrated this behaviour. But we weren't about to admit that our children were excited about television. Being happy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Melbourne :
Monash University Publishing,
2018.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List Of Illustrations; Dedication; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Television Terrors: Psychopaths, Couch Potatoes and Panics; Unpopular 'Popular' Culture; Moral Panics; The Fear of TV Violence; Couch Potatoes; Creativity and Imagination: Reading versus Television; 2. Innocence or Ignorance? How We Safeguard Children in Our Own Interest; Education and Work versus Pleasure; The Threat of Popular Culture
- and Bad Taste; Education and Popular Culture; Parents as Police and Adult Secrets; Powerful 'Myths' and the Sexualisation of the Child
- Beyond the MythsPlay
- Is It Fun?; 3. Let's Just Have Fun: Entertainment and Why It Matters; Where is Fun in the Picture?; Fandom and Its Pleasures; 'It's fun and interesting': Children Negotiating the Negative Public Discourses; 'Do you think television is good?'; Favourites: 'What do you like about these programs?'; Children's Views about Television Being Bad for You; 4. 'The funnest thing in the world'; Fun with TV: A Physical and Imaginative Experience; Joining a Crowd, and Solitary Pleasures, around Television; The Fun of Sharing: TV in Children's Social and Cultural Lives
- Sharing Talk with Friends: Competitive Critics or Partners in Pleasure?Television, Friends and Games; Talking about TV to Adults; 5. Sharing Pleasure, Humour and the 'Feel' of Utopia; Parents and Children: Conspiring for Pleasure; Humour; Passing the Time with Television; 'Learning' from Television; The 'Feel' of Utopia; Conclusion; Appendix: Research details; Methods and Approaches; Using Visual Research; Bibliography; Index