1st Edition
Children, Youth, and International Television
Introduction
Debbie Olson
Part One: Cultural Evolution
1. Migration, Youth and Australian Television: Production, Policies, and Audiences
Kyle Harvey
2. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo: Idealism, ‘Reality’ and 1960s Australian Children’s Television
Adrian Schober
3. I Know I Can Make it New: Degrassi, Youth Television, and the Work of Staying Relevant
Andrea Ruehlicke
4. TV Horror for Children as Transnational Genre: Round the Twist, Generic Subversions, and Quality Australian Children’s Television
Jessica Balanzategui
Part Two: Television Programming and National Identities
5. Children’s Maritime Television in Britain: Environment, Representation and Identity
Mark Fryers
6. "‘Thunderbirds are Go!’: Ideology and Representation in the Cold War Era
Fran Pheasant-Kelly
7. A Socialist School Story: The Czechoslovak television series "My všichni školou povinní"
Martina Winkler
Part Three: Televisual Style and National Identities
8. Aardman’s Animal Farm: "Loaded" Livestock and Illustrative Aesthetics in Shaun the Sheep (2007-2015)
Christopher Holliday
9. The Sound of Norwegian Children’s Television: Narrating the Nation, Childhood and the Welfare State
Ingeborg Lunde Vestad
Part Four: Child Agency
10. Representations of Childhood and "Modes of Address" in Palestinian and Pan-Arab Programs for Children
Feryal Awan
11. From Quinceañera to Miss XV: Coming of Age in Mexican Screen Melodrama
Sofia Rios
12. Gender, Ideology and Latin American Children's Animated Television
Milton Fernando Gonzalez-Rodriguez
Biography
Debbie Olson is Associate Professor of English at Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Missouri.
Adrian Schober is a Teacher Librarian at Caroline Chisholm Catholic College, Melbourne.
