Second star to the right : Peter Pan in the popular imagination / edited by Allison B. Kavey and Lester D. Friedman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: From peanut butter to the silver screen / Allison B. Kavey -- Tinker Bell, the fairy of electricity / Murray Pomerance -- "To die will 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.

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Over a century after its first stage performance, Peter Pan has become deeply embedded in Western popular culture, as an enduring part of childhood memories, in every part of popular media, and in commercial enterprises. Since 2003 the characters from this story have had a highly visible presence in nearly every genre of popular culture: two major films, a literary sequel to the original adventures, a graphic novel featuring a grown-up Wendy Darling, and an Argentinean novel about a children's book writer inspired by J.M. Barrie. Simultaneously, Barrie surfaced as the subject of two major biographies and a feature film. The engaging essays in Second Star to the Right approach Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyze his emergence and preservation in the cultural imagination.

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