Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood: Transforming Children's Literature into Film (1st ed. 2018) (Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2018
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781137395412
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781137395405
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 03/15/21
- Copyrighted By:
- The Editor
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Children's Books, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Teens, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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