Title: Second star to the right : Peter Pan in the popular imagination /
Authors: Kavey, Allison, 1977-; Friedman, Lester D.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Barrie, J. M.; Barrie, J. M. Adaptations.; Barrie, J. M. Characters.; Peter Pan; Children's stories, English History and criticism
Abstract: A collection of essays about J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and its staged and movie productions.
Contents: Introduction: From peanut butter to the silver screen / Allison B. Kavey -- Tinker Bell, the fairy of electricity / Murray Pomerance -- "To die with be an awfully big adventure": Peter Pan in Word War I / Linda Robertson -- "I do believe in fairies, I do, I do": the history and epistemology of Peter Pan / Allison B. Kavey -- "Shadow of [a] girl": an examination of Peter Pan in performance / Patrick B. Tuite -- Peter Pan and the possibilities of child literature / Martha Stoddard Holmes -- Disney's Peter Pan: gender, fantasy, and industrial production / Susan Ohmer -- Hooked on Pan: Barrie's immortal pirate in fiction and film / Lester D. Friedman -- "Gay, innocent, and heartless": Peter Pan and the queering of popular culture / David P. D. Munns -- Peter and me (or how I learned to fly): network television broadcasts of Peter Pan / Theresa Jones.