 | Children, Youth, and American Television Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Social Sciences; American Studies; Cultural Studies; Media & Film Studies; Sociology & Social Policy; Popular Culture; Media & Communications; Sociology of Culture; This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the changing ideas about children and childhood in the United States. Each chapter connects relevant events, attitudes, or anxieties in American culture to an analysis of children or childhood in select American television programs. The essays in this collection explore historical intersections of the family with expectations of childhood, particularly innocence, economic and material conditions, and emerging political and social realities that, at times, present unique challenges to America's children and the collective expectation of what childhood should be. Adrian Schober is Senior Editor on the board of Red Feather: an International Journal of Children in Popular Culture Debbie Olson is Assistant Professor of English at Missouri Valley College, USA |
