Out of the Garden - (Culture and Communication in Canada) by Stephen Kline (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This timely and innovative book provides a detailed history of marketing to children, revealing the strategies that shape the design of toys and have a powerful impact on the way children play. <p/>Stephen Kline looks at the history and development of children's play culture and toys from the teddy bear to the Barbie doll, Care Bears and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He profiles the rise of children's mass media--books, comics, film and television--and that of the specialty stores such as Toys 'R' Us, revealing how the opportunity to reach large audiences of children was a pivotal point in developing new approaches to advertising. <p/>In a powerful re-examination of the debates about the cultural effects of mass media, and in particular television, <i>Out of the Garden</i> asks whether we should allow our children's play culture to be primarily defined and created by marketing strategists, pointing to the unintended consequences of a situation in which images of real children have all but been eliminated from narratives about the young.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This timely and innovative book provides a detailed history of marketing to children, revealing the strategies that shape the design of toys and have a powerful impact on the way children play. Stephen Kline looks at the history and development of children's play culture and toys from the teddy bear and Lego to the Barbie doll, Care Bears and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He profiles the rise of children's mass media - books, comics, film and television - and that of the specially stores such as Toys 'R' Us, revealing how the opportunity to reach large audiences of children through television was a pivotal point in developing new approaches to advertising. Contemporary youngsters, he shows, are catapulted into a fantastic and chaotic time-space continuum of action toys thanks to the merchandisers' interest in animated television. Kline looks at the imagery and appeal of the toy commercials and at how they provide a host of stereotyped figures around which children can organize their imaginative experience. He shows how the deregulation of advertising in the United States in the 1980s has led directly to the development of the new marketing strategies which use television series to saturate the market with promotional "character toys". Finally, in a powerful re-examination of the debates about the cultural effects of television, Out of the Garden asks whether we should allow our children's play culture to be primarily defined and created by marketing strategies, pointing to the unintended consequences of a situation in which images of real children have all but been eliminated from narratives about the young.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A highly disturbing analysis of children's play ever since toys became big business ... An insight into the role of marketing and television that no parent can afford to ignore."--<i>The Times</i> <p/>"An interesting and provocative book. It alerts and sensitises one to to things which should have been obvious but weren't--like the increasingly sinister co-ordination between media products and the toy industry."--<i>Observer</i> <p/>"An invaluable analysis of child culture's long development."--<i>Voice Literary Supplement</i><br>
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