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- Second Star to the Right: Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Peter Pan Chronology
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-12
- List of Contributors
- pp. 265-267
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813546223
Related ISBN(s)
9780813544366
MARC Record
OCLC
311593380
Pages
292
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No