A Necessary Fantasy?: The Heroic Figure in Children's Popular CultureDudley Jones, Tony Watkins This book addresses a variety of issues through the examination of heroic figures in children's popular literature, comics, film, and television. |
Contents
Female Heroes in Pony Stories | 51 |
Good Citizenship and Girls in British | 73 |
Nancy Drew as Woman Hero | 87 |
Ideology Popular Film | 111 |
BigglesHero of the Air | 137 |
Dan Dare and the 1950s | 153 |
Fiction Ideology | 177 |
British Imperialism and the Reproduction | 207 |
An Enduring Legend | 251 |
The Case of Turtle Power | 267 |
Flawed or Fledgling Hero? | 291 |
Dahl The Marvellous Boy | 309 |
Steven Spielbergs | 327 |
Heroes and SNAGS in Fiction | 343 |
Doctor Who Text and Genre | 363 |
Contributors | 395 |
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