Secret Identities and Double Lives on Tween TV

This book introduces readers to the concepts of tweenhood and television tropes by providing historical and theoretical contexts and reviewing the history of television targeted to tweens. It will benefit children's media researchers, media and communication, cultural studies, adolescent and child development.

Amy Richards Franzini is Professor of Communication Studies at Widener University, USA. She studies the representations of children, childhood, parents, and parenting in popular media. She has written chapters in the books Fleeting Images: Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture and Common Sense: Intelligence as Presented on Popular Television, and has articles published in Journal of Sex Research, Communication Teacher and Journal of Children and Media.

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Tweens, Teens, and TV Chapter 3. Secret Identities Chapter 4. Power Chapter 5. Morality Chapter 6. Friendship Chapter 7. Romance Chapter 8. Siblings Chapter 9. Parents Chapter 10. Extended Family and Mentors Chapter 11. Revelation Appendix Index