Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Kids' Media Culture: An Introduction / Marsha Kinder 1
I. Children's Media Culture in the Postwar Era
Innocence Abroad: The Geopolitics of Childhood in Postwar Kid Strips / Lynn Spigel 31
"Her Suffering Aristocratic Majesty": The Sentimental Value of Lassie / Henry Jenkins 69
Kings of the Wild Backyard: Davy Crockett and Children's Space / Sean Griffin 102
Out of Control: Television and the Transformation of Childhood in Late Capitalism / Jyotsna Kapur 122
II. Reception and Cultural Identity
Sesame Street: Cognition and Communications Imperialism / Heather Hendershot 139
Ranging with Power on the Fox Kids Network: Or, Where on Earth is Children's Educational Television / Marsha Kinder 177
Xuxa S.A.: The Queen of Rede Globo in the Age of Transnational Capitalism / Elissa Rashkin 204
Saving Our So-Called Lives: Girl Fandom, Adolescent Subjectivity, and My So-Called Life / Susan Murray 221
III. Pedagogy and Power
Power Rangers at Preschool: Negotiating Media in Child Care Settings / Ellen Seiter 239
What Girls Want: The Intersections of Leisure and Power in Female Computer Game Play / Heather Gilmour 263
Video Game Designs by Girls and Boys: Variability and Consistency of Gender Differences / Yasmin B. Kafai 293
Selective Bibliography on Children's Media Culture / Karen Orr Vered 317
Contributors 323
Index 325

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Argues that children's reaction to mass media are far more complex and dynamic than previously thought

About the Author

Marsha Kinder is Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. She is the author of a number of books, including Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games andRefiguring Spain: Cinema/Media/Representation, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

"Kids' Media Culture is a significant contribution to one of the most important and fastest growing areas of scholarly concern in media and cultural studies -- the theory and history of childhood and adolescence. An extremely impressive range of topics are covered: different media and consumption practices, different historical periods, and considerations of the complexities of gender, class, and race." -- Eric Smoodin, author of Animating Culture: Hollywood Cartoons from the Sound Era