Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture ─ Fleeting Images

Contributing to the relatively new discipline of childhood studies, scholars of literature, communication, and education explore not so much actual children and childhood as the construction of children and childhood in print, on the Internet, and in television and movies. Among their topics are girl power and commodification in teen magazines; conceptualizing childhood in the Korean Educational Broadcasting System: a critical analysis of Pororo, Dora the Explorer and the training of the preschool viewer; Tim Burton and the production of color in the fairy tale films The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and The Corpse Bride (2005); and wartime and the morbid child psychology of Meet Me in St. Louis. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic is a reference librarian at the Paul Robeson Library at Rutgers University.

Debbie Olson, ABD, is lecturer at University of Texas at Arlington.