Where Has All the “Good” Play Gone?

Jennesia Pedri

Jennesia Pedri

Keywords: play, dance, creative

Abstract

Review of:

Burn, Andrew, and Chris Richards, eds. Children’s Games and the New Media Age: Childlore, Media and the Playground. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.

Chagall, Irene, dir. Let’s Get the Rhythm. New York: Women Make Movies, 2014.

Ogata, Amy F. Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2013.

DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2016.0019

Author Biography

Jennesia Pedri

Jennesia Pedri is a doctoral candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests include histories of childhood, children’s media cultures, and play theory. Her dissertation examines the production of discourses and practices concerning child development, television, and play.