LITERATURE, POPULAR ARTS, MEDIA

What can—and can’t—we learn about children’s lives from literature, popular arts and the media?

Alexander, Victoria. 1994. “The Image of Children in Magazine Advertising.” Communication Research December 21: 742-65.

Bazalgette, Cary, and David Buckingham (Eds.). 1995. In Front of the Children: Screen Entertainment and Young Audiences. London: British Film Institute.

Buckingham, David. 1994. "Television and the Definition of Childhood." Pp. 79-96 in Children's Childhoods: Observed and Experienced, edited by Berry Mayall. London: The Falmer Press.

Buckingham, David. 2000. After the Death of Childhood: Growing Up in the Age of Electronic Media. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press.

Einerson, Martha. 1998. "Fame, Fortune, and Failure: Young Girls' Moral Language Surrounding Popular Culture." Youth and Society 30: 241-257.

Ewald, Wendy. 2000. Secret Games: Collaborative Works with Children 1969 1999. Germany: Scalo.

“Kids & Media: The New Millennium.” 1999. Special report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. http://www.kff.org/content/1999/1535.

Kinder, Marsha. 1999. Kids’ Media Culture. Durham: Duke University Press.

Martin, John Levi. 2000. “What do Animals do All Day? The Division of Labor, Class Bodies, and Totemic Thinking in the Popular Imagination.” Poetics 27: 195 231.

Mukerji, Chandra. 1997. “Monsters and Moppets: The History of Childhood and Techniques of Cultural Analysis.” Pp. 155-184 in From Sociology to Cultural Studies: New Perspectives, edited by Elizabeth Long. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

Pecora, Norma Odom. 1998.The Business of Children’s Entertainment. New York: Guilford Press.

Pescosolido, Bernice A., Elizabeth Grauerholz, and Melissa A. Milkie. 1997. “Culture and Conflict: The Portrayal of Blacks in U.S. Children’s Picture Books through the Mid- and Late-Twentieth Century.” American Sociological Review 62: 443-64.

Rodgers, Daniel T. 1974. The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 5, “Splinterings: Fables for Boys.”

Steinberg, Shirley, and Joe Kincheloe (Eds.). Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Murray, Gail Schmunk. 1998. American Children's Literature and the Construction of Childhood. New York: Twayne Publishers.

Wolf, Shelby Anne, and Shirley Brice Heath. 1992. The Braid of Literature: Children's Worlds of Reading. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.