Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Building an image, building a consensus
  • The contained child on the cusp of a new era
  • The "other" child
  • Victims, hooligans, and the importance of threat
  • Mobilized childhood responds to the threat
  • Part II. Revising an ideal : the collapse of an image, the collapse of consensus
  • Soviet childhood in film during the thaw
  • American childhood and the bomb
  • Vietnam and the fall of an image
  • Conclusion.