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The Best Friend
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Pettersson, Åsa |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Description | This chapter examines the co-construction of the categories children and animals, focusing on pets, and the kinds of power relationships, which manifest in agency levels and domination, that this co-construction creates and reinforces in TV for children. It draws on childhood studies, which stress the importance of questioning the categorizations of children in society and their implications. The chapter focuses on a Swedish children's program called The Best Friend, which targets the youngest public service audience, threeto nine-year-olds. The Best Friend is a 12-episode-long TV series for children, produced by the Swedish public service TV company (SVT) for the public service children's channel in 2012. The fact that the series focuses on pets suggests that pets are a crucial interest for children. John Berger emphasizes this connection, arguing that children in Western culture are instructed to be interested in animals by all cultural commodities and activities promoted for a child audience, such as books, toys, and visits to the zoo. Book Name: Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9781315386218-16&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 263 |
| Page Count | 14 |
| Starting Page | 250 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315386218-16 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2017-10-06 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture History and Philosophy of Science Children Stress Friend Interest Swedish Construction Animals |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
