Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood : Transforming Children's Literature into Film Hardback
by R. McCallum
Part of the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series
Hardback
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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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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages, IX, 280 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:31/01/2018
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- ISBN:9781137395405
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages, IX, 280 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:31/01/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781137395405
