Suspended animation : children's picture books and the fairy tale of modernity

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    • Op de Beeck, Nathalie

書誌事項

Suspended animation : children's picture books and the fairy tale of modernity

Nathalie op de Beeck

University of Minnesota Press, c2010

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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巻冊次

ISBN 9780816665730

内容説明

Through a combination of nostalgia and new printing technologies, picture book publishing in America became a popular enterprise between the wars. Suspended Animation analyzes the phenomenon of American picture books and what their imaginative form and content reveal about the modern nation.In this insightful and nuanced work, Nathalie op de Beeck argues that pictorial literature intended for young readers presents a paradox. Children's picture books are at once fairy tales that uphold middle-class traditions and modern commodities that teach children about their changing world. With engaging color and black-and-white illustrations from influential texts, op de Beeck shows how these word-and-picture sequences provide deceptively simple stories within the specific historical and cultural contexts of the period between the 1910s and 1940s.Suspended Animation contends that children's picture books reflect adult ideals and provide visual and written information in contemporary, colorful packages. Although they are outwardly earnest and easy to read, picture books express questionable attitudes on ethnic and racial difference, nature and technology, and history and the here and now. By examining the production of picture books, their modes of storytelling, and their nods to both the avant-garde and mass culture, Suspended Animation traces the development of the American picture book in the history of modernity.

目次

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Here and Now Fairy Tales 2. Picture Book Ethnography: Representing the Other in Picture Books and Illustrated Texts 3. Sentient Machines: Lonesome Locomotives and the Mechanized Modern Body 4. Murals in Miniature: Regionalism, Labor, and Obsolescence Postscript: The Picture Book After 1942 Notes Index
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780816665747

内容説明

Through a combination of nostalgia and new printing technologies, picture book publishing in America became a popular enterprise between the wars. Suspended Animation analyzes the phenomenon of American picture books and what their imaginative form and content reveal about the modern nation. In this insightful and nuanced work, Nathalie op de Beeck argues that pictorial literature intended for young readers presents a paradox. Children's picture books are at once fairy tales that uphold middle-class traditions and modern commodities that teach children about their changing world. With engaging color and black-and-white illustrations from influential texts, op de Beeck shows how these word-and-picture sequences provide deceptively simple stories within the specific historical and cultural contexts of the period between the 1910s and 1940s. Suspended Animation contends that children's picture books reflect adult ideals and provide visual and written information in contemporary, colorful packages. Although they are outwardly earnest and easy to read, picture books express questionable attitudes on ethnic and racial difference, nature and technology, and history and the here and now. By examining the production of picture books, their modes of storytelling, and their nods to both the avant-garde and mass culture, Suspended Animation traces the development of the American picture book in the history of modernity.

目次

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Here and Now Fairy Tales 2. Picture Book Ethnography: Representing the Other in Picture Books and Illustrated Texts 3. Sentient Machines: Lonesome Locomotives and the Mechanized Modern Body 4. Murals in Miniature: Regionalism, Labor, and Obsolescence Postscript: The Picture Book After 1942 Notes Index

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