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When Harry Potter Meets Pokémon in Disneyland |
Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children offers
new insights into children's descriptions of their invented
or "make-believe" worlds, and the role that children's
experience with media plays in creating these worlds. Based
on the results of a cross-cultural study conducted in the United
States, Germany, Israel, and South Korea, it offers an innovative
look at media's role in children's creative lives.
This distinctive volume:
- outlines the central debates and research findings in
the area of children, fantasy worlds, and the media;
- provides a descriptive account of children's make-believe
worlds and the actions they would like to take in these
worlds;
- highlights the centrality of media in children's make-believe
worlds;
- emphasizes the multiple creative ways in which children
use media as resources in their environment to express their
own inner worlds;
- suggests the various ways in which the tension between
traditional gender portrayals that continue to dominate
media texts and children's wishes to act are presented in
their fantasies; and
- discusses how children interweave cultural specificities
with their interpretations of global media to create their
own meaningful worlds.
The work also demonstrates the
value of research in unveiling the complicated ways in which
media are woven into the fabric of children's everyday lives,
examining the creative and sophisticated uses they make of
their contents, and highlighting the responsibility that producers
of media texts for children have in offering young viewers
a wide array of role models and narratives to use in their
fantasies. This book will appeal to scholars, researchers,
students, and producers working in the areas of children and
media, early childhood education, and developmental psychology.
Maya Götz, Dafna Lemish,
Amy Aidmann, Hyesung Moon
Media and the Make-Believe Worlds of Children
When Harry Potter Meets Pokémon in Disneyland
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers 2005.
229 pages. Paperback.
ISBN: 0-8058-5192-5
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