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    Second Star to the Right
    Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination

    Lester D. Friedman (Edited by), Allison B. Kavey (Edited by)

    9780813544373

    Paperback / softback, published 28 November 2008

    292 pages, 24
    22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.51 kg

    Whether a Victorian, Edwardian, or twenty-first-century postmodern, earthbound adults of all ages will find Second Star to the Right an engaging and illuminating collection.
    - Thomas Doherty (Brandeis University)
    "This fresh and original collection of essays offers a deeper understanding of Peter Pan as an icon and cultural phenomenon."IDENTIFY BY AFFILIATION (SEE BELOW) OR BY PUBLICATION--EDITOR OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
    - Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota)
    Perhaps responding to the modern phenomenon known as Peter Pan syndrome, Kavey and Friedman collect nine excellent essays that explore the social and artistic impacts of J.M. Barrie's classic tale over the past century. Recommended.
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    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.

    Introduction: From peanut butter to the silver screen / Allison B. Kavey
    Tinker Bell, the fairy of electricity / Murray Pomerance
    "
    To die will be an awfully big adventure"
    : Peter Pan in Word War I / Linda Robertson
    "
    I do believe in fairies, I do, I do"
    : the history and epistemology of Peter Pan / Allison B. Kavey
    "
    Shadow of [a] girl"
    : an examination of Peter Pan in performance / Patrick B. Tuite
    Peter Pan and the possibilities of child literature / Martha Stoddard Holmes
    Disney's Peter Pan: gender, fantasy, and industrial production / Susan Ohmer
    Hooked on Pan: Barrie's immortal pirate in fiction and film / Lester D. Friedman
    "
    Gay, innocent, and heartless"
    : Peter Pan and the queering of popular culture / David P.D. Munns
    Peter and me (or how I learned to fly): network television broadcasts of Peter Pan / Theresa Jones

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