Visual Cultures of Childhood

This innovative book gives a historical and geographic perspective on visual cultures of childhood, looking at representation as well as media effects.

Karen Wells is Professor in Human Geography (International Development and Childhood Studies) at Birkbeck, University of London

1. Visual Political Culture, Childhood and Youth: From Object to Subject to Activist 2. The Emergence of a Sentimental Visual Culture 3. 'And Then the Kids Took it Over': Documentary Film, Racism and the Civil Rights Movement 4. The Melodrama of Being a Child: NGO Representations of Poverty 5. 'You Need to be Glad That You Graduated from High School, and That You're Alive at Eighteen': Coming-Of-Age in Black Film 6. We've Got a Bright Place in the Sun: LGBTQ Coming Out and Teen Melodrama 7. 'I'd Be Lost Without the Weight of You Two on My Back': Working Class Teens and the Western 8. 'On Being the Representation' 9. 'We the Wounded': Violence and Citizenship 10. Theorising Childhood, Visual Culture, and Technology