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Respectful educators, capable learners : children's rights and early education.

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This book focuses attention on current early childhood issues and examines them in light of the United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child. The book stresses the importance of national policy and highlights the responsibilities of all adults who work with children, in terms of enabling ch...

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Online Access: Full Text (via SAGE)
Other Authors: Nutbrown, Cathy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Paul Chapman, 1996.
Subjects:
Early childhood education > Great Britain.
Children's rights > Great Britain.
Children's rights
Early childhood education
Great Britain
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: What's in a Reader?
  • Section I
  • Star and Celebrity Culture: Theoretical Antecedents
  • 1 The Nature of Charismatic Domination
  • 2 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
  • 3 The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
  • 4 Myth Today
  • 'THAT-HAS-BEEN'
  • The Pose
  • The Luminous Rays, Colour
  • Amazement
  • Authentification
  • 5 The Ecstasy of Communication
  • Section II
  • The Analysis of Fame: Understanding Stardom
  • 6 The Powerless 'Elite': Theory and Sociological Research on the Phenomenon of the Stars
  • 7 Stars
  • Heavenly Bodies
  • 8 Stars as a Cinematic Phenomenon
  • 9 Re-examining Stardom: Questions of Texts, Bodies and Performance
  • 10 From Beyond Control to In Control: Investigating Drew Barrymore's Feminist Agency/Authorship
  • Section III
  • Fame
  • Remember My Name?: Histories of Stardom and Celebrity
  • 11 The Emergence of the Star System in America
  • 12 The Assembly Line of Greatness: Celebrity in Twentieth-Century America
  • 13 'Torture, Treacle, Tears and Trickery': Celebrities, 'Ordinary' People, and This is Your Life (BBC, 1955-65)
  • 14 Celebrity and Religion
  • 15 The Dream of Acceptability
  • Section IV
  • Producing Fame: 'Because I'm Worth It'
  • 16 The Economy of Celebrity
  • 17 Sharon Stone in a Gap Turtleneck
  • 18 Who Owns Celebrity?: Privacy, Publicity and the Legal Regulation of Celebrity Images
  • 19 Celebrity CEOs and the Cultural Economy of Tabloid Intimacy
  • 20 From the Altar to the Market-Place and Back Again: Understanding Literary Celebrity
  • Section V
  • Made in Culture: Star and Celebrity Representations
  • 21 The Face of Garbo
  • 22 The Whiteness of Stars: Looking at Kate Winslet's Unruly White Body
  • 23 The Hollywood Latina Body as Site of Social Struggle: Media Constructions of Stardom and Jennifer Lopez's "Cross-over Butt"
  • 24 'Ozzy Worked for Those Bleeping Doors with the Crosses on Them': The Osbournes as Social Class Narrative
  • 25 Mobile Identities, Digital Stars, and Post-Cinematic Selves
  • Section VI
  • Consuming Fame/Becoming Famous?: Celebrity and Its Audience
  • 26 With Stars in Their Eyes: Female Spectators and the Paradoxes of Consumption
  • 27 A Star is Dead: A Legend is Born: Practicing Leslie Cheung's Posthumous Fandom
  • 28 Doing It For Themselves? Teenage Girls, Sexuality and Fame
  • 29 Media Power: Some Hidden Dimensions
  • Index

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