Good Guys Don't Wear Hats Children's Talk about the Media

Name: Good Guys Don't Wear Hats Children's Talk about the Media
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ISBN: 9780807738863

ISBN-10: 0807738867

ISBN-13: 9780807738863

Edition: 2000

Authors: Joseph Tobin, Joseph Tobin

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List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 2/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.14" wide x 8.90" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Joseph Tobin is professor of early childhood education at the University of Georgia and the author of several books, including Preschool in Three Cultures Revisited, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Getting Beyond the Effects Paradigm	p. 3
The Beginnings of the Study	p. 6
The Research Design	p. 7
The Local Setting	p. 9
The Politics of Research	p. 10
Looking Awry at Children's Media Watching	p. 11
Imitative Violence	p. 16
A Conversation About Imitative Violence	p. 17
A Bakhtinian Approach	p. 19
Answering Questions with Citations	p. 22
Why the Relentless Citationality?	p. 26
Children as Bricoleurs	p. 28
The Emptiness of the Concept of Imitative Violence	p. 28
Disturbing Images	p. 30
Performing Gender	p. 31
Girls with Each Other and with Boys	p. 32
Gender Play	p. 34
Gendered Reactions to Violence and Special Effects	p. 36
Gender Wars	p. 44
Boy's Vulnerability	p. 50
Race	p. 54
Racial Interpellation	p. 55
Contextualizing "Chinese Eyes"	p. 59
Written on the Body	p. 63
Theatricality	p. 64
Resistance and Solidarity	p. 67
Analyzing an Aporia	p. 70
Racial Politics at Koa	p. 71
Postscript	p. 75
Colonialism	p. 80
The Textual Insights of Young Children	p. 84
What Children Do with Stereotypes	p. 87
Normativity	p. 89
A Taxonomy of Goodness and Badness	p. 90
Colonialism's Core Binaries	p. 91
The Embattled Middle-Class Family	p. 114
Domesticity	p. 115
Niceness	p. 118
Industriousness and Ingenuity	p. 120
Bad Guys and Good Women	p. 127
The Dilemma of Middle-Class Masculinity	p. 130
The Danger of Womanless, Childless Men	p. 133
Conclusion	p. 136
The Detective and the Psychoanalyst	p. 136
Interpretation as an Obsessive Act	p. 137
On Reading In	p. 138
The Research Context	p. 140
Literary and Poststructural Interpretation of Children's Talk	p. 143
The Media Effects Debate Revisited	p. 147
Local Kids, Global Culture	p. 148
References	p. 153
Index	p. 159
About the Author	p. 166
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