| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Science fiction, children's literature, and popular culture/ Gary Westfahl. |
| Reminder of title: |
coming of age in fantasyland / |
| Author: |
Westfahl, Gary. |
| Published: |
Westport, Conn. :Greenwood Press, : 2000., |
| Description: |
xiv, 157 p. ;24 cm. |
| Series: |
Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, |
| [NT 15003449]: |
How Charlie made children hate him: fantasy and reality in stories for small children -- The three lives of Superman - and everybody else -- Mystery of the amateur detectives: the early days of the Hardy boys -- Giving Horatio Alger goosebumps, or, from Hardy boys to hapless boys: the changing ethos of juveline series fiction -- From the back of the head to beyond the moon: the novel and film This island Earth -- Opposing war, exploiting war: the troubled pacifism of Star trek -- Even better than the real thing: advertising, music videos, postmodernism, and (eventually) science fiction -- Legends of the fall: going not particularly far Behind the music -- Hollywood strikes a pose: seven tales of triumph, treachery, and travail in old Tinseltown -- In defense of stone tablets: Isaac Asimov explains why science fiction is skeptical about "new information technologies" -- Partial derivatives: popular misinterpretations of H.G. Wells's The time machine. |
| Subject: |
Children - Books and reading - 20th century. - United States - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.ebooks.greenwood.com/reader.jsp?x=0313308470&p=coverhttp://www.ebooks.greenwood.com/reader.jsp?x=0313308470&p=cover |
| ISBN: |
0313030286 (electronic bk.) |