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Picturing Childhood: The Myth of the Child in Popular Imagery

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Whether controversial or taken for granted, pictures of children are everywhere - in magazines, newspapers and advertisements, on greetings cards and the Internet. "Picturing Childhood" demonstrates how these familiar images reveal a view of childhood which is constantly changing. With debates over children's rights in the 1970s, child sexual abuse in the 1980s, violent children in the 1990s and precocity and consumerism in the 2000s, the traditional image of childhood innocence survives only as a form of kitsch. Using images from a wide variety of sources, this text considers the popular imagery in relation to news, education, welfare, charity and consumerism and asks what implications does all this have for the ways in which children themselves are treated?

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

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Patricia Holland

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Patricia Holland was a freelance writer and film-maker based in London.

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February 23, 2014
Don't assign. Great for interesting details, examples, cases (lecture tidbits) but Higgonet's book is a better option for a discussion of changes in visual portrayal of children over time. Higgonet's focus on painting --> commercial illustration --> photography has a more engaging, coherent narrative.

(Library doesn't have it, but available through ILL.)
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December 17, 2013
หนังสือเรื่อง Picturing Childhood ของ Patricia Holland ให้ภาพของวัยเด็กต่าง ๆ ซึ่งเสนอผ่านภาพวาด หรือ ภาพของเด็กในเชิงต่าง ๆ เช่น การค้า วัฒนธรรมประชานิยม สำหรับผู้ที่สนใจเกี่ยวกับเด็ก ภาพลักษณ์ต่าง ๆ ของเด็ก เราขอแนะนำเล่มนี้ เพราะเรื่องนี้เล่าประเด็นได้กว้าง ละเอียด และมีภาพประกอบเยอะ เช่นเดิม เล่มนี้เขียนด้วยภาษาอังกฤษทั้งเล่มจ้ะ
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