Depicting Canada?s Children
Depicting Canada's Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in everyday life. The …
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Depicting Canada's Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in everyday life. The contributors provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the child and shed light on th.
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- Publication Date:2009.
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- Publisher(s):Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
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- Description:1 online resource (468)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1282534343, 9781282534346, 9781554582853, 1554582857
- oclc:ocn748211641
- LC Classification:N7640
- Dewey Decimal:704.9
Table of Contents
COVER13; -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- SYMBOL AND REALITY -- Iconography of the Child in Early Quebec Art -- Shaping Modern Boyhood: Indian Lore, Child Psychology, and the Cultural Landscape of Camp Ahmek -- Haunted: First Nations Children in Residential School Photography -- A Land of Youth: Nationhood and the Image of the Child in the National Film Board of Canada8217;s Still Photography Division -- Mapping a Canadian Girlhood Historically through Dolls and Doll-Play -- OTHERS AND OUTSIDERS -- The Raw Materials of Empire Building: Depicting Canada8217;s Home Children -- Immigrants, Labourers, 8220;Others8221;: Canada8217;s Home Children -- Re-Visioning the Girl8217;s Narrative for the 1980s: The Case of the Short Story 8220;Jack of Hearts8221; and Its Film Adaptation -- Locating Children in the Discourse of Squeegee Kids -- A Child8217;s Place in Ottawa8217;s Commemorative Landscape -- SUBJECTS OF CARE -- Frocks and Bangles: The Photographic Conversion of Two Indian Girls -- Pictures of Health: Sick Kids Exposed -- Healthy Bodies, Strong Citizens: Okanagan Children8217;s Drawings and the Canadian Junior Red Cross -- Children and Scho…
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