LEADER 05483nam 22007335 450 001 9910483352403321 005 20251204104647.0 010 $a9783030628819 010 $a3030628817 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-62881-9 035 $a(CKB)5590000000442535 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6531645 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6531645 035 $a(OCoLC)1244629126 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-62881-9 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000442535 100 $a20210330d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcz#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Marketing of Children?s Toys $eCritical Perspectives on Children?s Consumer Culture /$fedited by Rebecca C. Hains, Nancy A. Jennings 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (312 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a9783030628802 311 08$a3030628809 327 $aIntroduction -- Rebecca C. Hains & Nancy A. Jennings.-SECTION ONE: TOY TRENDS -- 1. Toying with Guns: A Critical Analysis of Play Firearms -- Jody Lynée Madeira, Professor of Law and Louis F Niezer Faculty Fellow, Indiana University Maurer School of Law -- 2. Reclaiming the Livingroom: The Play Value of Grotesque Toys -- Tyler Brunette, Ph.D. student, University of Pittsburgh, the Department of Communication -- 3. Playing with Minimalism: The Promotion of High-End Toys and Childhood Simplicity -- Spring-Serenity Duvall, Associate Professor of Communication, Salem College -- 4. Imported Toys in Indonesia: Parental Consumer Literacy, Purchase Decisions, and Globalization -- Rani Chandra Oktaviani and Fadlin Nur Ichwan, Lecturers, TheLondon School of Public Relations, Jakarta -- SECTION TWO: TOY MARKETING -- 5. Totally Toyetic -- Jonathon Lundy, Ph.D. Candidate, Drexel University -- 6. Unwrapping Toy TV: YouTube Kids and the role of Toy Unboxing and Play Videos -- Kyra Hunting, Assistant Professor, Media Arts and Studies, The University of Kentucky -- 7. Disney Toy Marketing Addresses Latina/os -- Diana Leon-Boys and Angharad N. Valdivia, Research Professor, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- 8. A Toy for Thoughtful Parents: Explaining the Rhetorical Origins of the American Public?s Love for LEGO -- Lauren DeLaCruz, Ph.D. Candidate, Rhetoric and Public Culture, Northwestern University -- SECTION THREE: TOYS AND GENDER -- 9. ?Smart is the New Cool?: Project MC2 and the Marketing of STEM Lifestyles to Tween Girls -- Avi Santo, Chair, Department of Communications & Theater Arts, Old Dominion University -- 10. Hacking Girl Power: GoldieBlox and Material Rhetoric -- Margeaux Lippman Hoskins, Lecturer, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY -- 11. Toy discourses and gendered roles in ?the most gender equal country in the world?: A critical cultural analysis of toy catalogues from 2011-2018 -- Trine Kvidal-Røvik, Associate Professor, Department -- Tourism and Northern Studies, The Arctic University of Norway -- 12. American Girl and the Construction of Masculinity -- Emilie Zaslow, Associate Professor, Pace University, New York -- 13. The Politics of Barbie?s Curvy New Body: Marketing Mattel?s ?Fashionista? Line -- Rebecca Hains, Professor of Media and Communication, Salem State University. 330 $aThis book offers rich critical perspectives on the marketing of a variety of toys, brands, and product categories. Topics include marketing undertaken by specific children?s toy brands such as American Girl, Barbie, Disney, GoldieBlox, Fisher-Price, and LEGO, and marketing trends characterizing broader toy categories such as on-trend grotesque toys; toy firearms; minimalist toys; toyetics; toys meant to offer diverse representation; STEM toys; and unboxing videos. Toy marketing warrants a sustained scholarly critique because of toys? cultural significance and their roles in children?s lives, as well as the industry?s economic importance. Discourses surrounding toys?including who certain toys are meant for and what various toys and brands can signify about their owners? identities?have implications for our understandings of adults? expectations of children and of broader societal norms into which children are being socialized. 606 $aYouth$xSocial life and customs 606 $aCommunication 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aConsumer behavior 606 $aYouth Culture 606 $aMedia Reception and Media Effects 606 $aCultural Studies 606 $aConsumer Behavior 615 0$aYouth$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aCommunication. 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aConsumer behavior. 615 14$aYouth Culture. 615 24$aMedia Reception and Media Effects. 615 24$aCultural Studies. 615 24$aConsumer Behavior. 676 $a688.720685 676 $a659.1968872 702 $aHains$b Rebecca C.$f1976- 702 $aJennings$b Nancy A. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bYDX 801 2$bOCLCO 801 2$bGW5XE 801 2$bEBLCP 801 2$bUKMGB 801 2$bN$T 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483352403321 996 $aThe marketing of children's toys$91891914 997 $aUNINA