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UNINA9910300020203321 |
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Autore |
McCallum Robyn |
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Titolo |
Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood : Transforming Children's Literature into Film / / by Robyn McCallum |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (IX, 280 p.) |
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Collana |
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Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture, , 2634-629X |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Children's literature |
Motion pictures |
Childhood |
Adolescence |
Film genres |
Children's Literature |
Adaptation Studies |
Childhood, Adolescence and Society |
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Film adaptations. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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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