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Second Star to the Right : Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination.
Title:
Second Star to the Right : Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination.
Author:
Friedman, Lester D.
ISBN:
9780813546223
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (292 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Peter Pan Chronology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Tinker Bell, the Fairy of Electricity -- Chapter 2: "To die will be an awfully big adventure": Peter Pan in World War I -- Chapter 3: "I do believe in fairies, I do, I do": The History and Epistemology of Peter Pan -- Chapter 4: "Shadow of [a] girl": An Examination of Peter Pan in Performance -- Chapter 5: Peter Pan and the Possibilities of Child Literature -- Chapter 6: Disney's Peter Pan: Gender, Fantasy, and Industrial Production -- Chapter 7: Hooked on Pan: Barrie's Immortal Pirate in Fiction and Film -- Chapter 8: "Gay, Innocent, and Heartless": Peter Pan and the Queering of Popular Culture -- Chapter 9: Peter and Me (or How I Learned to Fly): Network Television Broadcasts of Peter Pan -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Over a century after its first stage performance, Peter Pan has become deeply embedded in Western popular culture, as an enduring part of childhood memories, in every part of popular media, and in commercial enterprises. Since 2003 the characters from this story have had a highly visible presence in nearly every genre of popular culture: two major films, a literary sequel to the original adventures, a graphic novel featuring a grown-up Wendy Darling, and an Argentinean novel about a children's book writer inspired by J. M. Barrie. Simultaneously, Barrie surfaced as the subject of two major biographies and a feature film. The engaging essays in Second Star to the Right approach Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyze his emergence and preservation in the cultural imagination.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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