Coining for capital : movies, marketing, and the transformation of childhood / Jyotsna Kapur.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0813535921
- 9780813535920
- 081353593X
- 9780813535937
- 305.230904 22
- HQ792.U5 K36 2005
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305.23086945092 JON An improper daughter / | 305.2309 CON Contested bodies of childhood and youth / | 305.230904 DES Designing modern childhoods : history, space, and the material culture of children / | 305.230904 KAP Coining for capital : movies, marketing, and the transformation of childhood / | 305.230904 PRO The future of childhood : towards the interdisciplinary study of children / | 305.23091734 GLO Global perspectives on rural childhood and youth : young rural lives / | 305.23094 ACK A community for children? : children, citizenship, and internal migration in the EU / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Without training wheels : the ride into another century of capital -- 1. Cradle to grave : children's marketing and the deconstruction of childhood -- 2. Lost kingdoms : little girls, empire, and the uses of nostalgia -- 3. Of cowboys and Indians : Hollywood's games with history and childhood -- 4. Obsolescence and other playroom anxieties : toy stories over a century of capital -- 5. The children who need no parents -- 6. The burdens of time in the bourgeois playroom -- 7. Free market, branded imagination : Harry Potter and the commercialization of children's culture -- Conclusion : All that is solid melts into the air -- Filmography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index --
Introduction : without training wheels : the ride into another century of capital -- 1. Cradle to grave : children's marketing and the deconstruction of childhood -- 2. Lost kingdoms : little girls, empire, and the uses of nostalgia -- 3. Of cowboys and Indians : Hollywood's games with history and childhood -- 4. Obsolescence and other playroom anxieties : toy stories over a century of capital -- 5. The children who need no parents -- 6. The burdens of time in the bourgeois playroom -- 7. Free market, branded imagination : Harry Potter and the commercialization of children's culture -- Conclusion : all that is solid melts into air.
Annotation Since the 1980s, a peculiar paradox has evolved in American film. Hollywood's children have grown up, and the adults are looking and behaving more and more like children. In popular films such as Harry Potter, Toy Story, Pocahantas, Home Alone, and Jumanji, it is the children who are clever, savvy, and self-sufficient while the adults are often portrayed as bumbling and ineffective. Is this transformation of children into "little adults" an invention of Hollywood or a product of changing cultural definitions more broadly? In Coining for Capital, Jyostna Kapur explores the evolution of the concept of childhood from its portrayal in the eighteenth century as a pure, innocent, and idyllic state-the opposite of adulthood-to its expression today as a mere variation of adulthood, complete with characteristics of sophistication, temptation, and corruption. Kapur argues that this change in definition is not a media effect, but rather a structural feature of a deeply consumer-driven society. Providing a new and timely perspective on the current widespread alarm over the loss of childhood, Coining for Capital concludes that our present moment is in fact one of hope and despair. As children are fortunately shedding false definitions of proscribed innocence both in film and in life, they must now also learn to navigate a deeply inequitable, antagonistic, and consumer-driven society of which they are both a part and a target.
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