Crisis in children's television? A new book covers the production dilemmas and the policy swamp.
19 Feb 2015
Anna Potter
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Image: Snugglepot and Cuddlepie play cricket – a postcard by May Gibbs, created around 1916, and now out of copyright.
The look and feel of Paper Planes, which has now made $8.2m at the Australian box office in five weeks, reminds us just how few opportunities Australian children’s producers have to dive deeply into the lives and conversations of our own children. We are forced to spend a lot of public money to produce an internationalised version of ourselves, which is then fed back to our kids.
In 2015 Anna Potter was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for $A370,000 for her project entitled 'International Transformation in Children's Television 2013–2018'. The comprehensive transnational project will map the shape and scale of rapidly evolving production territories and markets for children's television opened up by media globalisation, and their economic and cultural impact on television made for the child audience.
Anna is a member of the Arts Research in Creative Humanities (ARCH) research cluster at the University of the Sunshine Coast and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland.
