TeleviZion: Children's Fantasies and Television

TeleviZion is an online journal of International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI), which does research in television (TV) programming formats, holds national and international conferences and workshops, and publishes a literature database on children, youth, and educational television, particularly focused on German speaking countries. This issue includes 12 research articles on imagination, fantasy, and the role of television, as well as three articles on programming and an editorial.

The titles include the following:

• Thomas Gruber - How much fantasy does the future need?
  
• Ruth Etienne Klemm - The formation of inner pictures;
  
• Marjorie Taylor - Children's imaginary companions;
  
• Gerard Jones - Battle-Zord Nu-Nu meets Power Ranger Po Maya Götz - Fantasies of fighting and fighters;
  
• Norbert Neuss - Gaps for fantasy in children's films - Television and the aesthetic of reception;
  
• Maya Goetz, Dafna Lemish, Amy Aidman, Hyesung Moon - The role of media in children's make-believe worlds;
  
• Ralf Gerhardt - The Fantastic Film Factory. Children's TV stories;
  
• Charlotte Cole - Imagine that! The importance of fantasy on "Sesame Street" co-productions around the world;
  
• Jan Uwe Rogge - Fantasy, emotion and cognition in "Sesame Street" - Notes on the framework stories;
• Dorothy G. Singer - Television and its potential for imagination.