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xii, 186 pages ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-182) and index. |
| Contents |
You're only young twice: adults, children, power, culture -- Beauties: coming to Black Beauty -- Beasts: dog stories and kids -- Goosebumps: what was series fiction doing in the 1990s? -- Impossibilities: The secret garden and Peter Pan -- Panic attacks: children as adults, adults as children in the movies -- Ambiguities: picture books for the very young. |
| Summary |
"You're Only Young Twice reveals the complexities that underlie even the sparest picture book text and the lessons that reside in even the most familiar family movie plots." "This book redirects the focus on children's literature, asking not "What messages should children receive?" but "What messages do adults actually send?" For example, Morris recounts his own childhood confusion upon viewing Peter Pan, with its queenish, inept pirate and a grown woman (Mary Martin) in tights who pretends to be a crowing boy." "Morris shatters our long-held assumptions and challenges our best intentions demonstrating how children's literature and film lay bare a troubled and troubling worldview."--Jacket. |
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Children's literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Children's literature, American -- History and criticism.
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Children -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries.
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Children's literature -- Film adaptations.
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Motion pictures and literature.
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Children -- Books and reading.
(OCoLC)fst00854849
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Children's literature. (OCoLC)fst01759351
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Children's literature, American. (OCoLC)fst00855882
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Children's literature, English. (OCoLC)fst00855967
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Motion pictures and literature. (OCoLC)fst01027410
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English-speaking countries. (OCoLC)fst01261775
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Film adaptations. (OCoLC)fst01710491
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| ISBN |
0252025326 (alk. paper) |
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9780252025327 (alk. paper) |
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