Contents
| Acknowledgmentsix | |
| Introductionxi | |
| 1. How Charlie Made Children Hate Him: Fantasy and Reality in Stories for Small Children1 | |
| 2. The Three Lives of Superman--And Everybody Else13 | |
| 3. Mystery of the Amateur Detectives: The Early Days of the Hardy Boys19 | |
| 4. Giving Horatio Alger Goosebumps, Or, From Hardy Boys to Hapless Boys: The Changing Ethos of Juvenile Series Fiction37 | |
| 5. From the Back of the Head to Beyond the Moon: The Novel and Film This Island Earth49 | |
| 6. Opposing War, Exploiting War: The Troubled Pacifism of Star Trek69 | |
| 7. Even Better than the Real Thing: Advertising, Music Videos, Postmodernism, and (Eventually) Science Fiction79 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture:Coming of Age in Fantasyland.
Contributors: Gary Westfahl - Author.
Publisher: Greenwood Press.
Place of publication: Westport, CT.
Publication year: 2000.
Page number: vii.
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