"Depend on, Rely on, Count on": Economic Subjectivities Aboard "The Polar Express"

Autor/in	Saltmarsh, Sue
Titel	"Depend on, Rely on, Count on": Economic Subjectivities Aboard "The Polar Express"
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 40 (2009) 2, S.136-148 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1007/s10583-009-9084-1
Schlagwörter	Social Class; Picture Books; Children; Nonprint Media; Films; Web Sites; Educational Resources; Childrens Literature; Social Values; Socioeconomic Influences; Socioeconomic Status; Behavior Standards; Social Behavior; Cultural Influences; World Views + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Picture book; Bilderbuch; Child; Kind; Kinder; Film; Web-Design; Bildungsmittel; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Sozialer Wert; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; World view; Weltanschauung
Abstract	Christmas literature and film produced for children is an important, albeit under-researched, site for the production of cultural values and norms. This paper analyses Chris Van Allsburg's 1985 picture book "The Polar Express", the 2004 Warner Brothers feature film of the same title, the film's official website, and resources for teachers distributed online by Houghton Mifflin, considering how these texts construct childhood subjectivities in economic terms. The argument made is that nostalgic depictions of ordered, middle-class lifestyles, the representation of social class inequalities as immutable structural norms, and signifiers of corporate capitalism, together locate childhood and child subjectivities as inexorably tethered to socio-economic circumstance and experience. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10