Screen adaptations and the politics of childhood :
McCallum, Robyn
Screen adaptations and the politics of childhood : transforming children's literature into film / by Robyn McCallum - London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 - ix, 280 p. ; 22 cm. - Palgrave Studies in adaptation and visual culture .
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This title 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.
9781137395405 (hardcover) 1137395400 (hardcover)
Children's literature--Film adaptations--History and criticism.
Children in motion pictures.
Children in motion pictures.
Children's literature.
791.436523 / MCC-S
Screen adaptations and the politics of childhood : transforming children's literature into film / by Robyn McCallum - London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 - ix, 280 p. ; 22 cm. - Palgrave Studies in adaptation and visual culture .
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
This title 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.
9781137395405 (hardcover) 1137395400 (hardcover)
Children's literature--Film adaptations--History and criticism.
Children in motion pictures.
Children in motion pictures.
Children's literature.
791.436523 / MCC-S