"Time for Teletubbies": Childhood, Child Participation, and the Struggle for Meaning
Description:
The children's television program Teletubbies and its concomitant controversies are analyzed along with the media attention surrounding the program. A textual analysis is presented, including the methodologies of narrative theory, semiotics/structuralism, and poststructuralism. The context is also analyzed, using a cultural studies and historical reception approach, in order to chronicle and analyze the show's controversies and elucidate how these arguments have affected reception and interpret…
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Date:
May 2003
Creator:
Cowart, Agatha
Partner:
UNT Libraries