The Visual Cultures of Childhood: Film and Television from The Magic Lantern To Teen Vloggers

by Karen Wells

Some of the most iconic images of the twentieth century are of children: Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, depicting farm worker Frances Owens Thompson with three of her children; six-year-old Ruby Bridges, flanked by U.S. marshals, walking down the steps of an all-white elementary school she desegregated; Huỳnh C ng t's photograph of nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc fleeing a South Vietnamese napalm bombing. These iconic images with their juxtaposition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786611031
• ISBN13: 9781786611031
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"