Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 270 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857735675
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1784530085
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9780755694884
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9780857735676
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9781784530082
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9780755694877
Series Statement:
Cinema and society series
Content:
Introduction: children's films and family films / Noel Brown and Bruce Babington -- Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls: babe and babe: pig in the city / Bruce Babington -- 'A film specially suitable for children': the marketing and reception of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) / Peter Kramer -- 'Why can't they make kids' flicks anymore?': Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the dual-addressed family film / Adrian Schober -- 'This is halloween': the history, significance, and cultural impact of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas / James M. Curtis -- Sabu, the elephant boy / Jeffrey Richards -- The classical hollywood family on screen: living with father and remembering mama / Bruce Babington -- The Railway Children and other stories: Lionel Jeffries and British family films in the 1970s / Noel Brown -- 'Luke, I am your father': toys, play space and detached fathers in the post-1970s Hollywood family films / Holly Blackford -- 'Films to give kids courage!': Children's films in the German Democratic Republic / Benita Blessing -- Post-Soviet parody: can family films about Russian heroes be funny? / Natalie Kononenko -- A brief history of Indian children's cinema / Noel Brown -- Brazilian children's cinema in the 1990s: tensions between the national-popular and the international-popular / Mirian Ou and Alessandro Constantino Gamo -- Narrative, time and memory in Studio Ghibli films / Tom Ue -- Dark films for dark times: spectacle, reception and the textual resonance of the contemporary Hollywood fantasy film / Fran Pheasant-Kelly.
Content:
With the huge global success of Hollywood 'family film' franchises, such as Harry Potter, it is unsurprising that there have been many attempts to emulate this success. In recent years, there has been an explosion in international production of films for both adults and children - resulting in an erosion of the dominance of The Disney Company and the other major Hollywood Studios in family film production. Family Films in Global Cinema is the first serious examination of films for child and family audiences in a global context. Whereas most previous studies of children's films and family films have concerned themselves with Disney, this book encompasses both live-action and animated films from the Hollywood, British, Australian, East German, Russian, Indian, Japanese and Brazilian cinemas. As well as examining international family films previously ignored by scholars, the collection also presents a fresh perspective on familiar movies such as The Railway Children, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Babe, and the Harry Potter series. --Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes filmography (pages 256-257) -- Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-260) and index
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781784530082
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Family films in global cinema London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015 ISBN 9781784530082
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755694884
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