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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300020203321

Autore

McCallum Robyn

Titolo

Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood : Transforming Children's Literature into Film / / by Robyn McCallum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9781137395412

1137395419

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 280 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture, , 2634-6303

Disciplina

809.89282

Soggetti

Children's literature

Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Sociology

Social groups

Film genres

Children's Literature

Adaptation Studies

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

Genre Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. .