| There's No Place Like Home: The Migrant Child in World Cinema Contributor(s): Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk (Author), Ross, Julian (Editor), Nagib, Lúcia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1350252387 ISBN-13: 9781350252387 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $40.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2022 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Children's Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.74 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the yellow brick road, ruby slippers and Oz. But this book begins with Dorothy and her legacy as an archetypal touchstone in cinema for the child journeying far from home. In There's No Place Like Home, distinguished film scholar Stephanie Hemelryk Donald offers a fresh interpretation of the migrant child as a recurring figure in world cinema. Displaced or placeless children, and the idea of childhood itself, are vehicles to examine migration and cosmopolitanism in films such as Le Ballon Rouge, Little Moth and Le Havre. Surveying fictional and documentary film from the post-war years until today, the author shows how the child is a guide to themes of place, self and being in world cinema. |