Histories of Children's Television Around the World

Yuval Gozansky, Sharon R. Mazzarella

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781433199028, 9781433196720
• eBook ISBN: 9781433198939
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Television History & Criticism

The book puts together for the first time valuable updated information that looks at children's television from its early days up to the current digital age, with its vast digital media offerings and availability. It offers new insights about a central children's media culture and focuses on non-Anglo-American television histories. Thus, readers interested in understanding past to present, local and global processes in children's television, would be able to find it in one book. Scholars, students, and professionals working in the field of children, as well as everyone concerned with children's culture will find a great diversity of knowledge about the cultural, social, political, and economic contexts of programs with which they and their children have grown up.

This edited book is based on a collective effort of researchers and professionals dedicated to compiling the stories of children's television around the world. With 12 national chapters, the book includes historical accounts of children's television from the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Ecuador, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Kenia, Netherlands, and the United States. It provides an exploration of each individual country, revealing striking similarities and differences which are discussed in depth in the final chapter.

Looking at the global field through local eyes––its main texts and active players (broadcasters, producers, and creators, as well as regulators and policy makers), their ideologies, financial prospects, and perceptions of childhood––offers a macro-level evaluation of an entire cultural field. This is a valuable picture, as it also provides a contextualized perspective for reflection in any micro-analysis of specific programs.

Table of contents

• Cover
• HalfTitle
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction: Thinking About Local Histories of Children’s Television
• 2. What’s up Skip? Australian Children’s Drama as Part of a Children’s Television Production Ecology
• 3. The Struggle for Quality in Children’s Television in Brazil
• 4. Canada’s Secret Sauce: Children’s Programming, Funding, and Animation
• 5. Entertaining “Buds of the Motherland”: The Evolution and Commercialization of Children’s Television in China
• 6. Toward a History of Children’s Television in Ecuador: This Is Not a Child’s Game
• 7. From the Center of Public Discussion to Niche Programing: Children’s Television in the Two Germanies Made One
• 8. The Untold Story of Children’s Television in India
• 9. From Instructional to Digital: Israeli Children’s Television
• 10. Balancing Cultural and Economic Value: The Italian Way to Children’s Television (1954–2021)
• 11. The Kenyan Story: From Children’s Talent Performance to Edutainment
• 12. Education, Entertainment, and Connection: Seventy Years of Dutch Children’s Television
• 13. Disruption Tales: Animated Children’s Television in the United States
• 14. Similar but Different: Changes in Children’s Television from a Global Perspective
• List of Contributors