Second Star to the Right

Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination
Herausgeber: Friedman, Lester D; Kavey, Allison B

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Produktbeschreibung

The engaging essays in Second Star to the Right approach Peter Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyze his emergence and preservation in the cultural imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 125mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780813544373
• ISBN-10: 0813544378
• Artikelnr.: 23823314

Autorenporträt

Allison B. Kavey is an assistant professor in the history department at CUNY John Jay College. She is the author of Worlds of Secrets: Books of Secrets and Popular Natural Philosophy in England, 1550-1600. Lester D. Friedman is the Senior Scholar-in-Residence in the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the editor of American Cinema of the 1970s: Themes and Variations and the coeditor of the Screen Decades Series (both Rutgers University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: From peanut butter to the silver screen / Allison B. Kavey
Tinker Bell, the fairy of electricity / Murray Pomerance
"To die will be an awfully big adventure": Peter Pan in Word War I / Linda
Robertson
"I do believe in fairies, I do, I do": the history and epistemology of
Peter Pan / Allison B. Kavey
"Shadow of [a] girl": an examination of Peter Pan in performance / Patrick
B. Tuite
Peter Pan and the possibilities of child literature / Martha Stoddard
Holmes
Disney's Peter Pan: gender, fantasy, and industrial production / Susan
Ohmer
Hooked on Pan: Barrie's immortal pirate in fiction and film / Lester D.
Friedman
"Gay, innocent, and heartless": Peter Pan and the queering of popular
culture / David P.D. Munns
Peter and me (or how I learned to fly): network television broadcasts of
Peter Pan / Theresa Jones