| Description |
ix, 410 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1873 Children's literature and culture ; v. 18 |
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Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1873.
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Garland reference library of the humanities. Children's literature and culture ; v. 18.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Dudley Jones and Tony Watkins -- Strange pilgrimages : Cinderella was a trickster - and other unorthodoxies of American and African-American heroic folk figures / Nina Mikkelsen -- Rides of passage : female heroes in pony stories / Alison Haymonds -- Girls' own stories : good citizenship and girls in British postwar popular culture / Deborah Philips -- More than crime on her mind : Nancy Drew as woman hero / Linda K. Christian-Smith -- Reconstructing Robin Hood : ideology, popular film, and television / Dudley Jones -- Biggles, hero of the air / Dennis Butts -- Piloting the nation : Dan Dare and the 1950s / Tony Watkins -- Golden boys and golden memories : fiction, ideology, and reality in Roy of the Rovers and the death of the hero / Alan Tomlinson and Christopher Young -- Heroines of empire : British imperialism and the reproduction of femininity in girls' fiction, 1900-1930 / J.S. Bratton -- "Get ready for action!" Reading action man toys / Jonathan Bignell -- Spider-Man : an enduring legend / C.M. Stephens -- Children and popular culture : the case of turtle power / David Lusted -- Peter Pan : flawed or fledgling "hero"? / Chris Routh -- Dahl, the marvellous boy / Catriona Nicholson -- Visionary children and child-like heroes : Steven Spielberg's "primal sympathy" / Douglas Brode -- Unbronzing the Aussie : heroes and SNAGs in fiction and television for Australian adolescents / Robyn McCallum and John Stephens -- Producing the national imaginary : Doctor Who, text and genre / John Tulloch. |
| Subject |
Children's mass media.
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Heroes in mass media.
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Popular culture.
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| Added Author |
Jones, Dudley.
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Watkins, Tony.
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| ISBN |
0815318448 alkaline paper |
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