Entertaining Children - The Participation of Youth in the Entertainment Industry

Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations into the employment and participation of children in the entertainment industry with examples drawn from historical and contemporary contexts.

Rossella Del Prete, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy Shih-Ching H. Picucci, University of Durham, UK Mark Branner, University of Hawai'i, Manoa, USA Gilli Bush-Bailey, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Dyan Colclough, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK James Skidmore, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Shauna Vey, City University of New York, USA Laura Noszlopy, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Noel Brown, Newcastle University, UK Ken Cerniglia, Disney Theatrical Group Lisa Mitchell, Disney Theatrical Group Broderick D.V. Chow, Brunel University, UK Darren O'Donnell, Mammalian Diving Reflex/University of Toronto, Canada