Sarah Banet-Weiser

Kids Rule!: Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the Nickelodeon's children's TV network and its subsidiary media and how they have influenced the concept of children as "citizens" within a community of their own that is separate from adults.

Produktdetails

• Console-Ing Passions
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 164mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780822339939
• ISBN-10: 0822339935
• Artikelnr.: 22882517

Autorenporträt

Sarah Banet-Weiser is Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity and coeditor of Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. “We, the People of Nickelodeon”: Theorizing Empowerment and Consumer
Citizenship 1
2. The Success Story: Nickelodeon and the Cable Industry 38
3. The Nickelodeon Brand: Buying and Selling the Audience 69
4. Girls Rule! Gender, Feminism, and Nickelodeon 104
5. Consuming Race on Nickelodeon 142
6. Is Nick for Kids? Irony, Camp, and Animation in the Nickelodeon Brand
178
Conclusion: Kids Rule: The Nickelodeon Universe 211
Notes 219
Bibliography 245
Index 259