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Screen adaptations and the politics of childhood : transforming children's literature into film / Robyn McCallum.

9781137395412 (electronic book)
1137395419 (electronic book)
9781137395405

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

©2018

English

1 online resource.

PN1997.85

791.436

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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Palgrave studies in adaptation and visual culture.

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