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Second Star to the Right: Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination

By Lester D. Friedman

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
081354436X, 9780813544366, 9780813546223
LCC
PR4074.P33 S43 2009
Open Library ID
OL16680676M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3351106 bytes)
Pages
288\293
Topic
Economy
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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