1st Edition
A Necessary Fantasy? The Heroic Figure in Children's Popular Culture
This book addresses a variety of issues through the examination of heroic figures in children's popular literature, comics, film, and television.
Introduction, Strange Pilgrimages: Cinderella Was a Trickster—and Other Unorthodoxies of American and African- American Heroic Folk Figures, Rides of Passage: Female Heroes in Pony Stories, Girls’ Own Stories: Good Citizenship and Girls in British Postwar Popular Culture, More Than Crime on Her Mind: Nancy Drew as Woman Hero, Reconstructing Robin Hood: Ideology, Popular Film, and Television, Biggies—Hero of the Air, Piloting the Nation: Dan Dare and the 1950s, Golden Boys and Golden Memories: Fiction, Ideology, and Reality in Roy of the Rovers and the Death of the Hero; Heroines of Empire: British Imperialism and the Reproduction of Femininity in Girls * Fiction, 1900-1930, "Get Ready for Action!" Reading Action Man Toys, Spider-Man: An Enduring Legend, Children and Popular Culture: The Case of Turtle Power, Peter Pan: Flawed or Fledgling "Hero"? Dahl, The Marvellous Boy, Visionary Children and Child-like Heroes: Steven Spielberg’s "Primal Symphathy", Unbronzing the Aussie: Heroes and SNAGs in Fiction and Television for Australian Adolescents, Producing the National Imaginary: Doctor Who, Text and Genre
Biography
Dudley Jones, Tony Watkins
