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Observations of Childrens\u27 Responses to Different Types of Adult Authority Figures
Get PDFExamines responses of second grade children to directives from teachers and student teachers in the classroom. Uses a coding system developed for this study to categorize the directives of authority figures and the children\u27s responses. Results show an interaction between gender and response to authority figure directives and a general tendency for the children, most especially boys, to be less compliant with the student teachers
So I Shall Tell You a Story: The Subversive Voice in Beatrix Potter\u27s Picture Books
Get PDFDescribes how recent literary scholarship has begun to interpret the themes and topics found within the children\u27s picture books of Beatrix Potter through the lens of the code-language in Potter\u27s secret journal, deciphered and published by Leslie Linder in 1966. Analyzes three tales from Potter\u27s collection of picture books, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, and The Tale of Pigling Bland, to illustrate the ways these books continued to represent the social and personal observations, voicing subversive reactions to the excesses and hypocrises of Victorian culture, that Potter first began in her journal
What\u27s News At Rhode Island College
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Children\u27s Film as Social Practice
Get PDFIn his paper Children\u27s Film as Social Practice, J. Zornado argues that the animated feature is a genre distinct in its own right, and, although overlooked by film criticism up to now, deserves rigorous, scholarly attention. Zornado employs the term iconology to develop a foundation for a critical methodology indebted to Althusser, Foucault, and Lacan as well as contemporary film criticism. Iconology of the animated feature film is the study of the meaning systems of the dominant culture and the ways in which such systems are inscribed into all kinds of social practice geared, specifically, to seduce and inform the mind of the child. Zornado analyses Pixar\u27s Monsters, Inc. (2001), elaborating it as an example of an iconological reading of an animated feature and he argues that Monsters, Inc. encodes ideologies of hegemonic power relations and while at first seeming to criticize and to reveal the corrupting nature of hegemonic power relations; thus, the film\u27s narrative works ultimately to confirm the status quo in which the child, like the Other, must learn to accept his/her objectified and exploited status as natural and inevitable
The Narration of Collective Trauma
Get PDFThe 1998 murder of African American James Byrd, Jr., in Jasper, Texas, activated narrative strategies within the community that sought to give coherence to, or otherwise appropriate and utilize this trauma for a variety of purposes. Via interviews with community civic and religious leaders, and analysis of their public statements to the media, this article uses psychoanalytic and anthropological frameworks to examine the psychological and structural needs to narrate trauma; struggles over whose narrative holds sway; the emerging story that Jasper presented to the world in an attempt to define itself and narrate what transpired and why; and implications for the silenced narratives
You\u27re Tearing Me Apart ! Investigating Ideology in the Image of Teens in the 1950s
Get PDFUsing cultural studies as a critical paradigm and ideological analysis as methodology, argues that gender, sexuality, and the nuclear family are core issues treated in two films and one television program from the 1950s featuring American teenagers. Focuses on the classic juvenile delinquent film, Rebel without a Cause, the quintessential clean teen film, Gidget, and the television series, Leave It to Beaver
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What\u27s News At Rhode Island College
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