Articles discuss the pros and cons of the entertainment industry and its impact on children as related to role models, educational programming, child stars, and the role of parents and child stars.

Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history. These essays offer scholarly investigations into the employment and participation of children in the entertainment industry with examples drawn from historical and contemporary contexts.

For over 20 years, the development of children's television programming has been subsidized by toy manufacturers. The result has been an increased commercialisation of children's popular culture - the creation of a "material world" of childhood characterized by brand-name toys, games, clothing, and television characters. Drawing on historical background and case studies, this book presents a unique look at the development of children as targets of the media and commercial industries, and examines the economic and social forces that have defined the evolution of children's entertainment. This volume is of interest to professionals and students in media studies, mass communication, and related fields; readers interested in contemporary children's culture and the content of children's programming.

An examination of the entertainment industry's efforts to curb children's exposure to violent content : hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, July 20, 2001.

'Handbook of Children and the Media' brings together the best-known scholars from around the world to summarize the current scope of the research in this field.

Cover Your Child in the Entertainment Industry is a revealing, informative, enlightening and instructive book from the first-person experiences of author, Jackie Elam whose two sons have been in motion pictures, television, modeling and commercials since infancy. Her new book addresses the questions from parents who already have children in the entertainment world or parents who are seeking information about getting their child into showbiz.Jackie's new book shares with you her experience and knowledge of how to keep your child safe and happy while forging a career in film industry. Whether your child is already in modeling, motion pictures, television, beauty contest or hopes to be, this book will help guide your steps and lead you through the Do's and Don'ts of the Industry.

Entertainment Industries is the first book to map entertainment as a cultural system. Including work from world-renowned analysts such as Henry Jenkins and Jonathan Gray, this innovative collection explains what entertainment is and how it works. Entertainment is audience-centred culture. The Entertainment Industries are a uniquely interdisciplinary collection of evolving businesses that openly monitor evolving cultural trends and work within them. The producers of entertainment – central to that practice– are the new artists. They understand audiences and combine creative, business and legal skills in order to produce cultural products that cater to them. Entertainment Industries describes the characteristics of entertainment, the systems that produce it, and the role of producers and audiences in its development, as well as explaining the importance of this area of study, and how it might be better integrated into Universities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies.