Thats classified: class politics and adolescence in twin peaks

Twin Peaks arguably paved the way for the television programmes currently popular with adolescent audiences, like The OC and Veronica Mars and, in it, many of the issues and representational strategies in those later programmes have their earlier manifestation. Specifically, the Twin Peaks plotline evinces a set of cultural anxieties about class-difference. Twin Peaks creates a cultural microcosm of American society that is paradoxically writ large by the limited parameters of an isolated community. Within a constricted space, characters are depicted as both individuals and as archetypes of a class location.<br /

Animating grandma : the indices of age and agency in contemporary children

Analysis of three animated children\u27s films, each with heroic grandmothers motivating their plotlines, suggests a shift in the representational politics mediating older women to child audiences. The films function as critiques, reflections, and mechanisms of contemporary capitalism\u27s available sociocultural locations for older women, modelled through varying degrees of subversive performance. Interrogating the agency potential of housework, nurture and extreme sports, this article assesses the role and function of the &ldquo;Granny trope&rdquo; in contemporary children\u27s media.<br /

Risk and resilience, knowledge and imagination: the enlightenment of David Almond\u27s Skellig

In what Ulrich Beck calls &quot;risk society,&quot; and Anthony Giddens a &quot;runaway world,&quot; a climate of fear and insecurity has been created by scientific progress, leading to a loss of confidence in the ability of experts to manage risk. Resilience is at the forefront of psychology research informing child-rearing strategies (Luthar, et al.); it entails an approach to child welfare that focuses on fostering internal (psychological) and external (cultural) assets that develop a child\u27s ability to triumph over adversity in the form of individual, familial, and cultural stresses.<br /

Cultural orienteering: a map for Anthony Browne`s into the forest

Bullen and Parsons identify Anthony Browne\u27s picture book Into the Forest as a re-gendered retelling of \u27Little Red Riding Hood\u27 that expresses recent assumptions about childhood, risk and the resources children need to survive in today\u27s world. In Browne\u27s version, the forest is the terrain in which a young male protagonist imaginatively explores his anxiety about his father\u27s unexplained absence.<br /

Poetry and silence : "a sequence of disappearances"

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