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Author:   Christopher E. Bell
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9781476673554

ISBN 10:   1476673551
Pages:   191
Publication Date:   09 November 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Christopher E. Bell) Gone but Not Forgotten: The Missing Mothers of the Wizarding World delete delete(Kate Fulton and Alicia L. Skipper) “Beyond the veil”: The Narrative Functions of Death (Samantha J. Vertosick) “I don’t think you’re a waste of space”: Activity, Redemption and the Social Construction of Fatness (Tolonda Henderson) Of the Patil Twins (Soma Das) Time Travel and the Cursed Child (Elizabeth Morrow Clark) Frisky, Risky Firewhisky: The Rhetorical Function of Alcohol (Lauren Camacci) Pure-Bloods, ­Half-Bloods and Mudbloods (Camilla Schroeder) “You have your mother’s eyes”: Inheritance and Social Class (Alison Baker) The First Gift: Owls as Paragons of the ­Non-Human (Keri Stevenson) Dangerous Depictions of Adoption in Rowling’s Wizarding World Narratives (Tara Moore) Harry Potter and the Paradoxes of Fidelity (Jelena Borojević) What Is a Hero?: An Analysis of Legacy Symbolism (Marley ­Stuever-Williford) About the Contributors Index

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Christopher E. Bell is an associate professor of media studies in the department of communication at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, specializing in the study of the ways in which race, class and gender intersect in different forms of children’s media. He is a TED speaker, a diversity and inclusiveness consultant for Pixar Animation Studios, a 2017 David Letterman Award winning media scholar and the 2017 Denver Comic Con Popular Culture Educator of the Year.

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