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Peer reviewedNeustadter, Roger – Youth and Society, 1989
Traces the changes in the depiction of childhood in science fiction films from the 1950s to the present decade. Argues that the contemporary science fiction representation of the sentimental child is a cultural idealization that opposes the social reality of the vanishing child. (FMW)
Descriptors: Characterization, Child Role, Children, Cultural Images
