| Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema Contributor(s): Olson, Debbie C. (Editor), Scahill, Andrew (Editor), Leslie-McCarthy, Sage (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0739170252 ISBN-13: 9780739170250 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $145.53 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Children's Studies |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 2012009403 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.55 lbs) 358 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Children have been a part of the cinematic landscape since the silent film era, yet children are rarely a part of the theoretical landscape of film analysis. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema, edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill, seeks to remedy that oversight. Throughout the over one-hundred year history of cinema, the image of the child has been inextricably bound to filmic storytelling and has been equally bound to notions of romantic innocence and purity. This collection reveals, however, that there is a body of work that provides a counter note of darkness to the traditional portraits of sweetness and light. Particularly since the mid-twentieth century, there are a growing number of cinematic works that depict childhood has as a site of knowingness, despair, sexuality, death, and madness. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema challenges notions of the innocent child through an exploration of the dark side of childhood in contemporary cinema. The contributors to this multidisciplinary study offer a global perspective that explores the multiple conditions of marginalized childhood as cinematically imagined within political, geographical, sociological, and cultural contexts. |
