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  1. Representations of children and success in Asia
    dream chasers
    Contributor: Chen, Shih-Wen (Herausgeber); Lau, Sin Wen (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London

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    Contributor: Chen, Shih-Wen (Herausgeber); Lau, Sin Wen (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781032293806; 9781032293813
    Series: Children's literature and culture
    Subjects: Kinderliteratur; Kinderfilm; Erfolg <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Children's literature / Asia / History and criticism; Children's films / Asia / History and criticism; Children in literature; Success in literature; Success in motion pictures; Children / Asia / Social conditions; Asien; Japan; Südkorea; China; Singapur; Taiwan; Indonesien; Vietnam; Indien; Essays
    Scope: xiii, 262 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23,5 cm
  2. The American success myth on film
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York [u.a.]

    Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film, Bibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781137482525; 1137482524
    RVK Categories: AP 44983 ; AP 50300
    Subjects: Success in motion pictures; Myth in motion pictures; Work in motion pictures; Motion pictures / United States / History; Motion pictures; Myth in motion pictures; Success in motion pictures; Work in motion pictures; Film; Geschichte; American dream; Film
    Scope: viii, 220 p., 22 cm
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    Originally published: 2012

    Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index

  3. Representations of children and success in Asia
    dream chasers
    Contributor: Chen, Shih-Wen (HerausgeberIn); Lau, Sin Wen (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York, NY

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    Contributor: Chen, Shih-Wen (HerausgeberIn); Lau, Sin Wen (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003301370; 1003301371; 9781000624472; 1000624471; 9781000624533; 1000624536
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    Series: Children's literature and culture
    Subjects: Children's literature; Children's films; Children in literature; Success in literature; Success in motion pictures; Children; Success; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature
    Scope: 1 online resource.
  4. Representations of children and success in Asia
    dream chasers
    Contributor: Chen, Shih-Wen (Publisher); Lau, Sin Wen (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY

    "This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine how success for children relates to education, family, gender, race, class, community, and the nation.... more

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    "This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine how success for children relates to education, family, gender, race, class, community, and the nation. It answers the following questions: How is success for children represented in literature, cinema, and popular media? In what ways are these images grounded in the historical, political, and cultural contexts in which they are produced and consumed? How does childhood agency influence ideas about success in Asia? Highlighting the similarities and differences in how success is defined for children and young adults in Japan, South Korea, People's Republic of China, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, and India, this volume argues that success is an important keyword in the literary and cultural study of childhood in Asia"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Chen, Shih-Wen (Publisher); Lau, Sin Wen (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781032293806; 1032293802
    Edition: First published
    Series: Children's literature and culture
    Subjects: Erfolg <Motiv>; Kinderliteratur; Kinderfilm
    Other subjects: Children's literature / Asia / History and criticism; Children's films / Asia / History and criticism; Children in literature; Success in literature; Success in motion pictures; Children / Asia / Social conditions; Asien; Japan; Südkorea; China; Singapur; Taiwan; Indonesien; Vietnam; Indien; Essays
    Scope: XIII, 262 Seiten, illustrations (black and white), 23,5 cm
    Notes:

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    1 Dreams of Success: Young People, Agency, Values, and Citizenship in Asia -- Note -- References -- Part 1 Educational Success -- 2 The Grace in Failings: Reading Failure as Success in SKY Castle and Assassination Classroom -- Humans as Social Beings -- "Examination Hell" and the Evils of Success -- The World as a Pyramid -- One for All, All for One -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Success at Any Price: Exam Hell and Morita Yoshimitsu's The Family Game -- The Rise of the Entrance Exam System -- The Entrance Exam System Through the Lens of Morita Yoshimitsu -- The Family Game Revisited Thirty Years Later -- Notes -- References -- 4 Unfulfilled Dreams of IIT: Notions of Success in Five Point Someone and 3 Idiots -- The Indian Education System, IIT, and Success -- Five Point Someone: Limits of IIT Success -- 3 Idiots: Reinforcing Traditional Notions of Success -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 2 Cultural Politics of Success -- 5 Representations of Money and Success in Contemporary Chinese Children's Literature -- Money and Ideological Tension -- "To Get Rich Is Glorious": Embracing Money -- Unleashing the "Secret" of Money -- Money and Children's Agency -- Money and Social Capital -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Hope, Oppression, and the Indian Urban Poor: Portrayals of Success in Trash! and Dear Mrs. Naidu -- Children's Literature in Contemporary India -- The Cultural Realm of the Urban Poor -- Friendship, Community, and Success in Dear Mrs. Naidu -- Conclusion: Success in Divergent Indian Childhoods -- References -- 7 Disappearing Girls: Gendered Success and the Reproduction of the Singapore Family in Jack Neo's Films -- Becoming Successful Women in Singapore -- Schoolgirls and Success.

  5. Representations of children and success in Asia
    dream chasers
    Contributor: Chen, Shih-Wen (Herausgeber); Lau, Sin Wen (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine how success for children relates to education, family, gender, race, class, community, and the nation.... more

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    "This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine how success for children relates to education, family, gender, race, class, community, and the nation. It answers the following questions: How is success for children represented in literature, cinema, and popular media? In what ways are these images grounded in the historical, political, and cultural contexts in which they are produced and consumed? How does childhood agency influence ideas about success in Asia? Highlighting the similarities and differences in how success is defined for children and young adults in Japan, South Korea, People's Republic of China, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, and India, this volume argues that success is an important keyword in the literary and cultural study of childhood in Asia"--...

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Chen, Shih-Wen (Herausgeber); Lau, Sin Wen (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003301370; 1003301371; 9781000624472; 1000624471; 9781000624533; 1000624536
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    Series: Children's literature and culture
    Subjects: Children's literature; Children's films; Children in literature; Success in literature; Success in motion pictures; Children; Success; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  6. The American success myth on film
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

    Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Top of the World: Cultural Narratives, Myths, and Movies -- Moving Up and Moving On: Mobility and the American Success Myth -- Work and its Discontents: The Corporate Workplace Movie -- Success... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Top of the World: Cultural Narratives, Myths, and Movies -- Moving Up and Moving On: Mobility and the American Success Myth -- Work and its Discontents: The Corporate Workplace Movie -- Success Reassessed: Ambitious Women/Midlife Men -- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum: The Glorification of Unemployment -- Conclusion

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780230363366; 0230363369
    Subjects: Success in motion pictures; Myth in motion pictures; Work in motion pictures; Social mobility in motion pictures; Motion pictures
    Other subjects: Success in motion pictures; Myth in motion pictures; Work in motion pictures; Social mobility in motion pictures; Array; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
    Scope: VIII, , 220 S., Ill., 23 cm
    Notes:

    Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes filmography (p. 212-214). - Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-211) and index

    Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Top of the World: Cultural Narratives, Myths, and Movies -- Moving Up and Moving On: Mobility and the American Success Myth -- Work and its Discontents: The Corporate Workplace Movie -- Success Reassessed: Ambitious Women/Midlife Men -- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum: The Glorification of Unemployment -- Conclusion.

  7. Representations of children and success in Asia
    dream chasers
    Contributor: Chen, Shih-Wen (Herausgeber); Lau, Sin Wen (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London

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    Contributor: Chen, Shih-Wen (Herausgeber); Lau, Sin Wen (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781032293806; 9781032293813
    Series: Children's literature and culture
    Subjects: Asien; Kinderliteratur; Kinderfilm; Erfolg <Motiv>;
    Other subjects: Children's literature / Asia / History and criticism; Children's films / Asia / History and criticism; Children in literature; Success in literature; Success in motion pictures; Children / Asia / Social conditions; Asien; Japan; Südkorea; China; Singapur; Taiwan; Indonesien; Vietnam; Indien; Essays
    Scope: xiii, 262 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23,5 cm
  8. The American success myth on film
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

    Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Top of the World: Cultural Narratives, Myths, and Movies -- Moving Up and Moving On: Mobility and the American Success Myth -- Work and its Discontents: The Corporate Workplace Movie -- Success... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    1 A 863019
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2013 A 3357
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
    52 A 8680
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    Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Top of the World: Cultural Narratives, Myths, and Movies -- Moving Up and Moving On: Mobility and the American Success Myth -- Work and its Discontents: The Corporate Workplace Movie -- Success Reassessed: Ambitious Women/Midlife Men -- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum: The Glorification of Unemployment -- Conclusion

     

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    Content information
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780230363366; 0230363369
    Subjects: Success in motion pictures; Myth in motion pictures; Work in motion pictures; Social mobility in motion pictures; Motion pictures
    Other subjects: Success in motion pictures; Myth in motion pictures; Work in motion pictures; Social mobility in motion pictures; Array; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
    Scope: VIII, , 220 S., Ill., 23 cm
    Notes:

    Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes filmography (p. 212-214). - Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-211) and index

    Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Top of the World: Cultural Narratives, Myths, and Movies -- Moving Up and Moving On: Mobility and the American Success Myth -- Work and its Discontents: The Corporate Workplace Movie -- Success Reassessed: Ambitious Women/Midlife Men -- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum: The Glorification of Unemployment -- Conclusion.