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Screening Gender on Children's Television : The Views of Producers Around the World [1 ed.] 9780203855409, 9780415482059
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Screening Gender on Children’s Television
Screening Gender on Children’s Television offers readers insights into the transformations taking place in the presentation of gender portrayals in television productions aimed at younger audiences. It goes far beyond a critical analysis of the existing portrayals of gender and culture by sharing media professionals’ action-oriented recommendations for change that would promote gender equity, social diversity and the wellbeing of children. Incorporating the author’s interviews with 135 producers of children’s television from 65 countries, this book discusses the role television plays in the lives of young people and, more specifically, in developing gender identity. It examines how gender images presented to children on television are intertwined with important existential and cultural concerns
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1000+ Authors, Writers, Journalists, Publishers, and Entertainment Leaders Stand United Against Cultural Boycotts
Writers from around the globe including Lee Child (creator of Jack Reacher), Bernard Henri-Lévy (Philosopher and Author), Herta Müller (Author, Poet, and Nobel Prize Award Winner), Sir Simon Schama (Historian and Author), Howard Jacobson (Booker Prize-winning Author), Simon Sebag Montefiore (Historian and Author), Adam Gopnik (Writer), Yossi Klein Halevi (Author), David Mamet (Author & pris Prize Winner), Elfriede Jelinek (Author and Nobel Prize Award Winner) join entertainment leaders, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing, Julianna Margulies, Scooter Braun, Haim Saban, Ynon Kreiz, Ozzy Osbourne, and Gene Simmons, amongst many others, to reject boycotts against authors and literary institutions.
LOS ANGELES (October 30, 2024) — More than 1000 leaders from the literary and entertainment industry signed an open letter released by the non-profit e
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INTRODUCTION / Mordecai Naor
On March 9, 1953, a news item appeared in the daily Ha’aretz reporting that the State of Israel would be prepared to dispatch 200,000 soldiers to fight alongside the United States should that country enter into a military confrontation with the Soviet Union. Although the report was denied vigorously in Israel, the two communist newspapers published in Israel at that time – Kol Ha’am (in Hebrew) and al-Ittihad (in Arabic) took up the issue and ran editorials attacking the government vociferously. Responding, the minister of interior acted on his authority and ordered a closure of both papers based on “endangerment of the public peace.” Both newspapers appealed the closure to the Supreme Court, which considered the case over a period of months until on October 16, 1953, a panel of three judges annulled the minister of interior’s decision.
The Kol Ha’am case has served ever since as a milestone in the realm of freedom of speech a