Coining for Capital: Movies, Marketing, and the Transformation of Childhood
by Jyotsna Kapur
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""This book is a welcome addition to the literature on children and the media, and a most stimulating application of social theory to questions of the child in contemporary film and consumer culture.""-Ellen Seiter, author of The Internet Playground: Children's Access, Entertainment and Mis-Education Since the 1980's, a peculiar paradox has evolved in American film. Hollywood's children have grown up, and the adults are looking and behaving more and more like children. In popular films show more such as Harry Potter, Toy Story, Pocahantas, Home Alone, and Jumanji, it is the children who ar show lessTags
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Jyotsna Kapur teaches in the department of cinema and photography at Southern Illinois University.
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- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 305.23 — Social sciences Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Groups of people Age groups Young people up to 20
- LCC
- HQ792 .U5 .K36 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women The family. Marriage. Home Children. Child development
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