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Pundit Knows Best

Michelle Ann Abate

Michelle Ann Abate

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Kidding Around : The Child in Film and Media

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...The more polite you are, the more responsive the other person will be. Remember that in any debate.Few other media personalities have enjoyed more success during the past decade than Bill O’Reilly. His nightly current events and political...

Animating Depression America 1934–7

Tracey Louise Mollet

Tracey Louise Mollet is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Cartoons in Hard Times : The Animated Shorts of Disney and Warner Brothers in Depression and War 1932–1945

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Following the ‘Roosevelt honeymoon’ of the early 1930s, the narratives of these animated productions moved from veracious political endorsement towards a thoughtful social commentary on American life. In line with many of the Hollywood...

Building a Mystery

Chris Foss

Chris Foss

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Kidding Around : The Child in Film and Media

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...The terrible tragedy of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012 left countless Americans (including myself) in a state of shock and sadness. For many, it seemed important to preserve...

Only a Child

Brian Walter

Brian Walter

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Kidding Around : The Child in Film and Media

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...In a 1958 letter to Putnam editor Walter Minton, Vladimir Nabokov expressed great concern over the burgeoning notoriety of his controversial novel Lolita. In particular, the author insisted that the producers of any future film version...

Surreal Estate

Michael Howarth

Michael Howarth

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Kidding Around : The Child in Film and Media

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...I’m currently house-sitting for a fellow professor, shacked up in a two-story Victorian house built in 1898, musty and expansive with black widows roaming the basement and a cross breeze rustling through the loose floorboards. As a single...

Introduction: The Storyboard So Far

Tracey Louise Mollet

Tracey Louise Mollet is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Cartoons in Hard Times : The Animated Shorts of Disney and Warner Brothers in Depression and War 1932–1945

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...In the summer of 1941, Nelson Rockefeller and John Hay Whitney approached Walt Disney to make a series of animated shorts for the Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIAA). The OIAA was formed in 1940 and was primarily concerned...

Betwixt and Between

Kevin A. Wisniewski

Kevin A. Wisniewski

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Kidding Around : The Child in Film and Media

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...At Apartment 16B at the Cove, Cleveland Heap rocks back and forth, loudly chomping down on a chocolate chip cookie and sipping a glass of milk, which leaves a mustache on his upper lip. He leans back on the living room sofa and slowly curls...

Introduction

Wynn Yarbrough

Wynn Yarbrough is Associate Professor and chair of the English Department at the University of the District of Columbia, USA. He is the author of Masculinity in Children's Animal Stories, 1888-1928: A Critical Study of Anthropomorphic Tales by Wilde, Kipling, Potter, Grahame and Milne (2011) and A Boy's Dream (2011). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Alexander N. Howe

Alexander N. Howe is Associate Professor of English at the University of the District of Columbia, USA. He is the co-editor of Marcia Muller and the Female Private Eye: Essays on the Novels that Defined a Subgenre (2009) and author of It Didn't Mean Anything: A Psychoanalytic Reading of American Detective Fiction (2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Kidding Around : The Child in Film and Media

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...As scholarship of media evolves in the second decade of this new millennium, intersections with traditional modes of criticism have produced rich and often divided conversations. Contemporary media theory has left the “high” Humanist...

“The Studio World Surprised and Disturbed Ruth”

Sally Sims Stokes

Sally Sims Stokes

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Kidding Around : The Child in Film and Media

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...A seasoned actress who became a playwright, novelist, and social critic, Noel Streatfeild, OBE (1895–1986) will forever be associated with Ballet Shoes: A Story of Three Children on the Stage. This 1936 favorite continues in print...

Animated Nationalism 1937–41

Tracey Louise Mollet

Tracey Louise Mollet is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Cartoons in Hard Times : The Animated Shorts of Disney and Warner Brothers in Depression and War 1932–1945

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...In his study of American culture in the 1930s, David Eldridge has made the argument for ‘mass communication of radio, cinema and advertising forging national bonds’ (Eldridge 2008, 23). Due to the social dislocation experienced...