Out of the garden : toys, TV, and children's culture in the age of marketing / Stephen Kline.

This timely and innovative book provides a detailed history of marketing to children, revealing the strategies that shape the design of toys and have a powerful impact on the way children play. Stephen Kline looks at the history and development of children's play culture and toys from the teddy...

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Main Author: Kline, Stephen.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Verso, 1993.
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Table of Contents:
  • The sovereignty of consumerism : children in the age of marketing
  • Communication analysis for the age of marketing
  • The making of children's culture
  • From literacy to comics : the origins of children's fiction
  • Thralls of the screen : the rise of mass media for children
  • Marketing toys to children and youth
  • Building character
  • Limited imaginings
  • The parables of play : policy, strategy and advertising design
  • Technicians of the imagination.