| ID | 016124 |
| Call Number | 305.23/POS |
| Title Proper | Disappearance of childhood |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Postman, Neil |
| Publication | New York, Vintage Books, 1994. |
| Description | xiii, 178p Red spine |
| Note | From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood. Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Neil Postman, suggests that childhood is a relatively recent invention, which came into being as the new medium of print imposed divisions between children and adults. But now these divisions are eroding under the barrage of television, which turns the adult secrets of sex and violence into poprular entertainment and pitches both news and advertising at the intellectual level of ten-year-olds.
Informative, alarming, and aphorisitc, The Disappearance of Childhood is a triumph of history and prophecy. |
| Standard Number | 9780679751663 |
| Price. Qualification | $15.00(Pb) |
| Classification Number | 305.23 |
| Key Words | Children ; IBDP ; Children and adults ; TOK ; Mass media and children |