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ERIC Number: EJ388117
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1989
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Phone Home: From Childhood Amnesia to the Catcher in Sci-Fi--The Transformation of Childhood in Contemporary Science Fiction Films.
Neustadter, Roger
Youth and Society, v20 n3 p227-40 Mar 1989
Traces the changes in the depiction of childhood in science fiction films from the 1950s to the present decade. Argues that the contemporary science fiction representation of the sentimental child is a cultural idealization that opposes the social reality of the vanishing child. (FMW)
Descriptors: Characterization, Child Role, Children, Cultural Images, Film Criticism, Films, Literature Reviews, Mass Media, Popular Culture, Science Fiction, Social Influences
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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