""Kids' Media Culture" is a significant contribution to one of the most important and fastest growing areas of scholarly concern in media and cultural studies--the theory and history of childhood and adolescence. An extremely impressive range of topics are covered: different media and consumption practices, different historical periods, and considerations of the complexities of gender, class, and race."--Eric Smoodin, author of "Animating Culture: Hollywood Cartoons from the Sound Era"

Acknowledgments ixKids' Media Culture: An Introduction / Marsha Kinder 1I. Children's Media Culture in the Postwar EraInnocence Abroad: The Geopolitics of Childhood in Postwar Kid Strips / Lynn Spigel 31"Her Suffering Aristocratic Majesty": The Sentimental Value of Lassie / Henry Jenkins 69Kings of the Wild Backyard: Davy Crockett and Children's Space / Sean Griffin 102Out of Control: Television and the Transformation of Childhood in Late Capitalism / Jyotsna Kapur 122II. Reception and Cultural IdentitySesame Street: Cognition and Communications Imperialism / Heather Hendershot 139Ranging with Power on the Fox Kids Network: Or, Where on Earth is Children's Educational Television / Marsha Kinder 177Xuxa S.A.: The Queen of Rede Globo in the Age of Transnational Capitalism / Elissa Rashkin 204Saving Our So-Called Lives: Girl Fandom, Adolescent Subjectivity, and My So-Called Life / Susan Murray 221III. Pedagogy and PowerPower Rangers at Preschool: Negotiating Media in Child Care Settings / Ellen Seiter 239What Girls Want: The Intersections of Leisure and Power in Female Computer Game Play / Heather Gilmour 263Video Game Designs by Girls and Boys: Variability and Consistency of Gender Differences / Yasmin B. Kafai 293Selective Bibliography on Children's Media Culture / Karen Orr Vered 317Contributors 323Index 325