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Visual Cultures of Childhood: Film and Television from The Magic Lantern To Teen Vloggers

Visual Cultures of Childhood: Film and Television from The Magic Lantern To Teen Vloggers

Karen Wells, Karen Wells

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TelevisionGeneral EducationGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1538148234
ISBN13: 9781538148235
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Oct 12 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some of the most iconic images of the twentieth century are of children: Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, depicting farm worker Frances Owens Thompson with three of her children; six-year-old Ruby Bridges, flanked by U.S. marshals, walking down the steps of an all-white elementary school she desegregated; Hu?nh Công Út's photograph of nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing a South Vietnamese napalm bombing. These iconic images with their juxtaposition of the innocent (in the sense of not culpable) figure of the child and the guilty perpetrators of violence (both structural and interpersonal) are 'arresting'. The power of the image of the child to arrest the spectator, to demand a response from her has given the representation of children a central place in the history of visual culture for social reform. This book analyses a range of forms and genres from social reform documentary through feature films and onto small and mobile media to address two core questions: What difference does it make to the message who the producer is? and How has the place of children and youth changed in visual public culture?

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