Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood: Transforming Children's Literature Into Film 2018 Edition Contributor(s): McCallum, Robyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 1137395400 ISBN-13: 9781137395405 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature - Performing Arts | Film - Genres - General |
Dewey: 301 |
LCCN: 2017958005 |
Series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.10 lbs) 280 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book features a cutting edge approach to the study of film adaptations of literature for children and young people, and the narratives about childhood those adaptations enact. Historically, film media has always had a partiality for the adaptation of 'classic' literary texts for children. As economic and cultural commodities, McCallum points out how such screen adaptations play a crucial role in the cultural reproduction and transformation of childhood and youth, and indeed are a rich resource for the examination of changing cultural values and ideologies, particularly around contested narratives of childhood. The chapters examine various representations of childhood: as shifting states of innocence and wildness, liminality, marginalisation and invisibility. The book focuses on a range of literary and film genres, from 'classic' texts, to experimental, carnivalesque, magical realist, and cross-cultural texts. |