Children, Youth, and International Television

Debbie Olson is Associate Professor of English at Missouri Valley College, Marshall, Missouri. Adrian Schober is a Teacher Librarian at Caroline Chisholm Catholic College, Melbourne.

• IntroductionDebbie Olson Part One: Cultural Evolution1. Migration, Youth and Australian Television: Production, Policies, and AudiencesKyle Harvey2. Skippy the Bush Kangaroo: Idealism, ‘Reality’ and 1960s Australian Children’s TelevisionAdrian Schober 3. I Know I Can Make it New: Degrassi, Youth Television, and the Work of Staying RelevantAndrea Ruehlicke 4. TV Horror for Children as Transnational Genre: Round the Twist, Generic Subversions, and Quality Australian Children’s TelevisionJessica BalanzateguiPart Two: Television Programming and National Identities5. Children’s Maritime Television in Britain: Environment, Representation and IdentityMark Fryers 6. "‘Thunderbirds are Go!’: Ideology and Representation in the Cold War Era Fran Pheasant-Kelly7. A Socialist School Story: The Czechoslovak television series "My všichni školou povinní"Martina Winkler Part Three: Televisual Style and National Identities8. Aardman’s Animal Farm: "Loaded" Livestock and Illustrative Aesthetics in Shaun the Sheep (2007-2015) Christopher Holliday 9. The Sound of Norwegian Children’s Television: Narrating the Nation, Childhood and the Welfare StateIngeborg Lunde Vestad Part Four: Child Agency10. Representations of Childhood and "Modes of Address" in Palestinian and Pan-Arab Programs for Children Feryal Awan 11. From Quinceañera to Miss XV: Coming of Age in Mexican Screen MelodramaSofia Rios 12. Gender, Ideology and Latin American Children's Animated TelevisionMilton Fernando Gozalez-Rodriguez