Entertaining Children

The Participation of Youth in the Entertainment Industry
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-45482-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 251 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3358 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations into the employment and participation of children in the entertainment industry with examples drawn from historical and contemporary contexts.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emeljanow, V.

Arrighi, G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT Introduction: 'Setting the Scene': An Introduction; Gillian Arrighi and Victor Emeljanow 1. Musical Education and the Job Market: The Employment of Children and Young People in the Neapolitan Music Industry with Particular Reference to the Period 1650 to 1806; Rossella Del Prete 2. An American Antebellum Child-Actor Contract: Alfred Stewart and the Shift from Craft Apprentice to Wage Laborer; Shauna Vey 3. Children and Youth of the Empire: Tales of Transgression and Accommodation; Gillian Arrighi and Victor Emeljanow 4. British Child Performers 1920-1940: New Issues, Old Legacies; Dyan Colclough PART II: BY CHILDREN/FOR CHILDREN 5. 'How Much Do You Love Me'? The Child's Obligations to the Adult in 1930s Hollywood; Noel Brown 6. Shifting Screens: The Child Performer and her Audience Revisited in the Digital Age; Gilli Bush-Bailey 7. The Business of Children in Disney's Theatre; Ken Cerniglia and Lisa Mitchell 8. Young Mammals: The Politics and Aesthetics of Long-Term Collaboration with Children in Mammalian Diving Reflex's The Torontonians; Broderick D.V. Chow and Darren O'DonnellPART III: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES 9. The 'Little Legong Dancers' of Bali: Child Stars in Indonesian Dance Theatre; Laura Noszlopy 10. Child Training and Employment in Taiwanese Opera 1940s - 1960s: An Overview; Shih-Ching H. Picucci 11. Higher Wages, Less Pain: The Changing Role of Children in Traditional Chinese Theater; Mark Branner 12. Defying Death: Children in the Indian Circus; Jamie Skidmore

Über Autor(innen)

Rossella Del Prete, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy
Shih-Ching H. Picucci, University of Durham, UK
Mark Branner, University of Hawai'i, Manoa, USA
Gilli Bush-Bailey, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Dyan Colclough, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
James Skidmore, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Shauna Vey, City University of New York, USA
Laura Noszlopy, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Noel Brown, Newcastle University, UK
Ken Cerniglia, Disney Theatrical Group
Lisa Mitchell, Disney Theatrical Group
Broderick D.V. Chow, Brunel University, UK
Darren O'Donnell, Mammalian Diving Reflex/University of Toronto, Canada