Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-184) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Without Training Wheels: The Ride into Another Century of Capital -- From the Cradle to the Grave: Children's Marketing and the Deconstruction of Childhood -- Lost Kingdoms: Little Girls, Empire, and the Uses of Nostalgia -- Of Cowboys and Indians: Hollywood's Games with History and Childhood -- Obsolescence and Other Playroom Anxieties: Toy Stories Over a Century of Capital -- The Children Who Need No Parents -- The Burdens of Time in the Bourgeois Playroom -- Free Market, Branded Imagination: Harry Potter and the Commercialization of Children's Culture -- Conclusion: All That is Solid Melts into the Air.