Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood Transforming Children's Literature into Film /
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 child...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
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| ISBN: | 9781137395412 |
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| Summary: | 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. . |
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| Item Description: | Literature, Cultural and Media Studies |
| Physical Description: | IX, 280 p. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9781137395412 |