Disney Channel Tween Programming

Disney Channel Tween Programming
Title Disney Channel Tween Programming PDF eBook
Author Christopher E. Bell
Publisher McFarland
Pages 288
Release 2020-08-28
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1476639639

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Much has been written about the Walt Disney Company's productions, but the focus has largely been on animation and feature film created by Disney. In this essay collection, the attention is turned to The Disney Channel and the programs it presents for a largely tween audience. Since its emergence as a market category in the 1980s, the tween demographic has commanded purchasing power and cultural influence, and the impressionability and social development of the age group makes it an important range of people to study. Presenting both a groundbreaking view of The Disney Channel's programming by the numbers and a deep focus on many of the best-known programs and characters of the 2000s--shows like The Wizards of Waverly Place, That's So Raven and Hannah Montana--this collection asks the simple questions, "What does The Disney Channel Universe look and sound like? Who are the stories about? Who matters on The Disney Channel?"

Disney Channel’s Extraordinary Girls

Disney Channel’s Extraordinary Girls
Title Disney Channel’s Extraordinary Girls PDF eBook
Author Christina H. Hodel
Publisher Lexington Books
Pages 191
Release 2024-03-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1666925470

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Between 2001–2011, Disney Channel produced several sitcoms aimed at tweens that featured female protagonists with extraordinary abilities (e.g., celebrity and super/magical powers). In this book, Christina H. Hodel argues that, while male counterparts in similar programs openly displayed their extraordinariness, the female characters in these programs were often forced into hiding and secrecy, which significantly diminished their agency. She analyzes sitcom episodes, commentary in magazine articles, and web-based discussions of these series to examine how they portrayed female youths and the impact it had on its adolescent viewers. Combining close readings of dialogue and action with socioeconomic and historical contextual insights, Hodel sheds new light on the attitudes of the creators of these programs (mostly white, middle-aged, Western, heterosexual males) and the long-term impact on women today. Ultimately, her analysis shows, these blockbuster sitcoms reveal that despite Disney’s progress toward creating empowered girls, the network was—and still is—locked into tradition. This book is of interest to scholars of Disney studies, cultural studies, television studies, and gender studies.

Library Service to Tweens

Library Service to Tweens
Title Library Service to Tweens PDF eBook
Author Melanie A. Lyttle
Publisher McFarland
Pages 211
Release 2017-02-03
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1476625743

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This comprehensive guide to tween library services begins with a developmental description of this ever-changing group and offers practical advice about materials and programming. Criteria are provided for categorizing books, music, movies and magazines as appropriate for tweens, with special attention given to the reluctant reader. The authors discuss how to determine where tween services fit within the broader spectrum of youth services, and how to provide support for them. Information on marketing and outreach to tweens and their adults completes this essential guide.

Generation Digital

Generation Digital
Title Generation Digital PDF eBook
Author Kathryn C. Montgomery
Publisher MIT Press (MA)
Pages 378
Release 2007
Genre Social Science
ISBN

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A media expert and activist assesses the role that children and youth play in the emerging digital culture--as consumers targeted by marketing campaigns, as creators of their own digital culture, and as political participants.

Broadcasting & Cable

Broadcasting & Cable
Title Broadcasting & Cable PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 470
Release 2008
Genre Broadcasting
ISBN

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The Advertising and Consumer Culture Reader

The Advertising and Consumer Culture Reader
Title The Advertising and Consumer Culture Reader PDF eBook
Author Joseph Turow
Publisher
Pages 460
Release 2009
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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Assembles the important writings on advertising and society. This title includes 27 essays which provide readers with the some of the best-known writings on the nature, process, and social implications of advertising and consumer culture for society

The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter
Title The Hollywood Reporter PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 1328
Release 2009
Genre Motion pictures
ISBN

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