Children, Youth, and International Television

Debbie Olson is Associate Professor of English at Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Missouri. Adrian Schober is a Teacher Librarian at Caroline Chisholm Catholic College, Melbourne.

Introduction

Debbie Olson

Part One: Cultural Evolution

1. Migration, Youth and Australian Television: Production, Policies, and Audiences

Kyle Harvey

2. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo: Idealism, ‘Reality’ and 1960s Australian Children’s Television

Adrian Schober

3. I Know I Can Make it New: Degrassi, Youth Television, and the Work of Staying Relevant

Andrea Ruehlicke

4. TV Horror for Children as Transnational Genre: Round the Twist, Generic Subversions, and Quality Australian Children’s Television

Jessica Balanzategui

Part Two: Television Programming and National Identities

5. Children’s Maritime Television in Britain: Environment, Representation and Identity

Mark Fryers

6. "‘Thunderbirds are Go!’: Ideology and Representation in the Cold War Era

Fran Pheasant-Kelly

7. A Socialist School Story: The Czechoslovak television series "My všichni školou povinní"

Martina Winkler

Part Three: Televisual Style and National Identities

8. Aardman’s Animal Farm: "Loaded" Livestock and Illustrative Aesthetics in Shaun the Sheep (2007-2015)

Christopher Holliday

9. The Sound of Norwegian Children’s Television: Narrating the Nation, Childhood and the Welfare State

Ingeborg Lunde Vestad

Part Four: Child Agency

10. Representations of Childhood and "Modes of Address" in Palestinian and Pan-Arab Programs for Children

Feryal Awan

11. From Quinceañera to Miss XV: Coming of Age in Mexican Screen Melodrama

Sofia Rios

12. Gender, Ideology and Latin American Children's Animated Television

Milton Fernando Gozalez-Rodriguez