Child's play: The political imaginary of international relations and contemporary popular children's films
| Autor: | Marc G. Doucet |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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| Zdroj: | Global Society. 19:289-306 |
| ISSN: | 1469-798X 1360-0826 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13600820500135312 |
| Popis: | Many scholars in International Relations (IR) have drawn from popular films to examine various problematiques that have informed the discipline's main theorisations. As Cynthia Weber remarks, popular films are powerful because they engage in the very ‘serious political work’ of mythologising the ‘truths’ and ‘realities’ which provide the foundation for many of IR's main theoretical envisionings of our world. To date, however, children's films have received very little attention. For the purpose of this paper, three have been isolated: Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998) and Rescue Heroes: The Movie (2003). Children's films, it can be argued, help to craft and restore certain perspectives for each new generation of young minds during the crucial years when the world is being textualised for the first time. The objective of this paper, therefore, is to read these films as working towards producing and sustaining the power/knowledge that seeks to defend contemporary forms of world order while concurrently ... |
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