Popular Media in the Culture of English-Canadian Children in the Twentieth Century

Abstract

In January, 1998, three "very angry girls"-Sherry Kennedy, Laura Gibbons, and Katie Gibbons-wrote to the Vancouver Sun that theatre staff "wouldn't let us in Scream 2, even with our parents' permission...We are 14, can't drive and have nothing to do but see movies to be entertained, and if we can't see movies that are good, what is there to do?...Young adults like us want thrills, and scary movies are as thrilling as we can get." 5 * * * As soon as the video version of Star Wars Episode I: the Phantom Menace appeared, Susan Mayes reported, she "discovered my 10-year-old daughter camped in front of the VCR.Scene by scene, Annie was freeze-framing her way through...to check Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation 7

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