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Throughout the modern era, the figure of the child has consistently reflected adult concerns about industrialisation, consumerism and technology. Drawing on case studies of Wallace and Gromit, Teletubbies, Horrible Histories and more, this book explores how media products for children navigate understandings of childhood and child audiences

Introduction / Robert E. Terrill, Indiana University -- Rhetorical charges: mercurian figures and democratic hope after Obama / Peter Simonson, University of Colorado Boulder -- A wrestling of brothers: (re)writing Obama separately and together (again) / David A. Frank, University of Oregon & Mark Lawrence McPhail, Indiana University Northwest -- Barack Obama's neo-racial responses to black death / Amy L. Heyse, California State University, Long Beach & Ebony A. Utley, California State University, Long Beach -- Obama's rhetoric of myth and reason / Robert C. Rowland, The University of Kansas -- Barack Obama at the threshold of a new America / Robert L. Ivie, Indiana University & Oscar Giner, Arizona State University -- The once and future teleological discourse of Barack Obama / Richard W. Leeman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte -- Testing the narrative signature perspective: the case of Obama and health care reform / Martin J. Medhurst, Baylor University -- Losing patience with an imperfect president and imperfect people / Derek R. Sweet, Luther College & Margret McCue-Enser, Saint Catherine University -- How selective amnesia brought us the first Black Socialist president of the United States / Kristen Hoerl, University of Nebraska-Lincoln -- A reflection on the Obama phenomenon, our heroic expectations, and the Obama presidency / Jennifer R. Mercieca, Texas A&M University