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Format: 1 online resource (292 p.) : , 24

ISBN: 9780813546223

Content: Over a century after its first stage performance, Peter Pan has become deeply embedded in Western popular culture, as an enduring part of childhood memories, in every part of popular media, and in commercial enterprises. Since 2003 the characters from this story have had a highly visible presence in nearly every genre of popular culture: two major films, a literary sequel to the original adventures, a graphic novel featuring a grown-up Wendy Darling, and an Argentinean novel about a children's book writer inspired by J. M. Barrie. Simultaneously, Barrie surfaced as the subject of two major biographies and a feature film. The engaging essays in Second Star to the Right approach Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyze his emergence and preservation in the cultural imagination.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Peter Pan Chronology -- , Introduction: From Peanut Butter Jars to the Silver Screen -- , 1 Tinker Bell, the Fairy of Electricity -- , 2 “To die will be an awfully big adventure”: Peter Pan in World War I -- , 3 “I do believe in fairies, I do, I do”: The History and Epistemology of Peter Pan -- , 4 “Shadow of [a] girl”: An Examination of Peter Pan in Performance -- , 5 Peter Pan and the Possibilities of Child Literature -- , 6 Disney’s Peter Pan: Gender, Fantasy, and Industrial Production -- , 7 Hooked on Pan: Barrie’s Immortal Pirate in Fiction and Film -- , 8 “Gay, Innocent, and Heartless”: Peter Pan and the Queering of Popular Culture -- , 9 Peter and Me (or How I Learned to Fly): Network Television Broadcasts of Peter Pan -- , List of Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.36019/9780813546223

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813546223

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Format: 1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-281-95879-4 , 9786611958794 , 0-8135-4622-2

Content: Over a century after its first stage performance, Peter Pan has become deeply embedded in Western popular culture, as an enduring part of childhood memories, in every part of popular media, and in commercial enterprises. Since 2003 the characters from this story have had a highly visible presence in nearly every genre of popular culture: two major films, a literary sequel to the original adventures, a graphic novel featuring a grown-up Wendy Darling, and an Argentinean novel about a children's book writer inspired by J. M. Barrie. Simultaneously, Barrie surfaced as the subject of two major biographies and a feature film. The engaging essays in Second Star to the Right approach Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyze his emergence and preservation in the cultural imagination.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Peter Pan Chronology -- , Introduction: From Peanut Butter Jars to the Silver Screen -- , 1 Tinker Bell, the Fairy of Electricity -- , 2 “To die will be an awfully big adventure”: Peter Pan in World War I -- , 3 “I do believe in fairies, I do, I do”: The History and Epistemology of Peter Pan -- , 4 “Shadow of [a] girl”: An Examination of Peter Pan in Performance -- , 5 Peter Pan and the Possibilities of Child Literature -- , 6 Disney’s Peter Pan: Gender, Fantasy, and Industrial Production -- , 7 Hooked on Pan: Barrie’s Immortal Pirate in Fiction and Film -- , 8 “Gay, Innocent, and Heartless”: Peter Pan and the Queering of Popular Culture -- , 9 Peter and Me (or How I Learned to Fly): Network Television Broadcasts of Peter Pan -- , List of Contributors -- , Index , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8135-4436-X

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

DOI: 10.36019/9780813546223