TY - BOOK AU - Friedman,Lester D. AU - Jones,Teresa AU - Kavey,Allison B. AU - Munns,David P.D. AU - Ohmer,Susan AU - Pomerance,Murray AU - Robertson,Linda AU - Stoddard Holmes,Martha AU - Tuite,Patrick B. TI - Second Star to the Right: Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination SN - 9780813544366 AV - PR4074.P33 S43 2009eb U1 - 822/.912 22 PY - 2008///] CY - New Brunswick, NJ : PB - Rutgers University Press, KW - Children's stories, English KW - History and criticism KW - Peter Pan (Fictitious character) KW - PERFORMING ARTS / General KW - bisacsh N1 - restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813546223 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813546223 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813546223/original ER -