Kathy Merlock Jackson(Ph.D., American culture, Bowling Green State University), is an assistant professor of theater/communications at Virginia Wesleyan College, where she teaches courses in mass communications. Her areas of interest include popular culture, film, and children's culture, and she is area chair of children's culture for the Popular Culture Association.

Jackson devotes most of her book to analyzing films, and she does this very well...Her observations on how films reflect societal changes are perceptive and clearly reasoned...Fascinating study.

Kathy Merlock Jackson(Ph.D., American culture, Bowling Green State University), is an assistant professor of theater/communications at Virginia Wesleyan College, where she teaches courses in mass communications. Her areas of interest include popular culture, film, and children's culture, and she is area chair of children's culture for the Popular Culture Association.

Jackson devotes most of her book to analyzing films, and she does this very well...Her observations on how films reflect societal changes are perceptive and clearly reasoned...Fascinating study.

Kathy Merlock Jackson(Ph.D., American culture, Bowling Green State University), is an assistant professor of theater/communications at Virginia Wesleyan College, where she teaches courses in mass communications. Her areas of interest include popular culture, film, and children's culture, and she is area chair of children's culture for the Popular Culture Association.

Jackson devotes most of her book to analyzing films, and she does this very well...Her observations on how films reflect societal changes are perceptive and clearly reasoned...Fascinating study.