UID:
almahu_9947420004202882
Format:
IX, 280 p.
,
online resource.
ISBN:
9781137395412
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
Content:
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. .
Note:
1. Introduction: ?Palimpsestuous Intertextualities? and the Cultural Politics of Childhood -- 2. The Imperial Child and the Romantic Child: Film Adaptation as Cultural Capital -- 3. The Dream Child and the Wild Child: Adapting the Carnivalesque -- 4. ?Flapping Ribbons of shaped Space-Time?: Genre Mixing, Intertextuality and Metafiction in Fiction and Film Adaptation -- 5. Angels, Monsters and Childhood: Liminality and the Quotidian Surreal -- 6. Invisible Children: Representing Childhood across Cultures -- 7. Epilogue.
In:
Springer eBooks
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9781137395405
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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General works
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-39541-2
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39541-2
URL:
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