Good Guys Don't Wear Hats: Children's Talk About The Media

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Author: Joseph Tobin

ISBN-10: 0807738867

ISBN-13: 9780807738863

Category: Psychology of Education

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Acknowledgments1Introduction1Getting Beyond the Effects Paradigm3The Beginnings of the Study6The Research Design7The Local Setting9The Politics of Research10Looking Awry at Children's Media Watching112Imitative Violence16A Conversation About Imitative Violence17A Bakhtinian Approach19Answering Questions with Citations22Why the Relentless Citationality?26Children as Bricoleurs28The Emptiness of the Concept of Imitative Violence28Disturbing Images303Performing Gender31Girls with Each Other and with Boys32Gender Play34Gendered Reactions to Violence and Special Effects36Gender Wars44Boy's Vulnerability504Race54Racial Interpellation55Contextualizing "Chinese Eyes"59Written on the Body63Theatricality64Resistance and Solidarity67Analyzing an Aporia70Racial Politics at Koa71Postscript755Colonialism80The Textual Insights of Young Children84What Children Do with Stereotypes87Normativity89A Taxonomy of Goodness and Badness90Colonialism's Core Binaries916The Embattled Middle-Class Family114Domesticity115Niceness118Industriousness and Ingenuity120Bad Guys and Good Women127The Dilemma of Middle-Class Masculinity130The Danger of Womanless, Childless Men1337Conclusion136The Detective and the Psychoanalyst136Interpretation as an Obsessive Act137On Reading In138The Research Context140Literary and Poststructural Interpretation of Children's Talk143The Media Effects Debate Revisited147Local Kids, Global Culture148References153Index159About the Author166