"Children Youth And International Television | Media & Cultural Studies

This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the public consumption of changing ideas about children childhood and national identity via a critical examination of programs that prominently feature children and youth in international television. The chapters connect relevant cultural attitudes within their respective countries to an analysis of children and/or childhood in international children’s programming. The collection addresses how international children’s programming in global and local context informs changing ideas about children and childhood including notions of individual and citizen identity formation. Offering new insights into childhood and television studies this book will be of great interest to graduate students scholars and professionals in television studies childhood studies media studies cultural studies popular culture studies and American studies. |Children Youth and International Television | Media & Cultural Studies