Childhood And Cinema

Author : Vicky Lebeau
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861893529
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood and Cinema written by Vicky Lebeau and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vicky Lebeau investigates how films use children to probe such themes as sexuality, death, imagination, the terrors of childhood, and hope.

Author : Vicky Lebeau
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861893529
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood and Cinema written by Vicky Lebeau and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vicky Lebeau investigates how films use children to probe such themes as sexuality, death, imagination, the terrors of childhood, and hope.

Author : Debbie Olson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498563813
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Child in World Cinema written by Debbie Olson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege a Western ideal. Rather, this collection seeks to broaden our ideas about children, childhood, and the child’s place in the global community. This collection features a wide variety of contributors from around the world who offer compelling analyses of non-Western, non-Hollywood films starring children.

Author : Emma Wilson
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781903364505
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinema's Missing Children written by Emma Wilson and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs of missing children are some of the most haunting images of contemporary Western society. Wilson contends that the loss of a child is perceived as a limit-experience in contemporary cinema, where filmmakers attempt to transform their means of representation as a response to acute pain and horror. She explores the representation of missing and endangered children in a number of the key films of the last decade, including Kieslowski's Three Colours: Blue, Atom Egoyan's Exotica, Todd Solondz's Happiness, Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady, Lars von Trier's The Kingdom, and Almodovar's All About My Mother.

Author : Jessica Balanzategui
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048537797
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema written by Jessica Balanzategui and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates how global horror film images of children re-conceptualised childhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century, unravelling the child's long entrenched binding to ideologies of growth, futurity, and progress. The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema analyses an influential body of horror films featuring subversive depictions of children that emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and considers the cultural conditions surrounding their emergence. The book proposes that complex cultural and industrial shifts at the turn of the millennium resulted in potent cinematic renegotiations of the concept of childhood. In these transnational films-largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and America-the child resists embodying growth and futurity, concepts to which the child's symbolic function is typically bound. By demonstrating both the culturally specific and globally resonant properties of these frightening visions of children who refuse to grow up, the book outlines the conceptual and aesthetic mechanisms by which long entrenched ideologies of futurity, national progress, and teleological history started to waver at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Author : Andrew Scahill
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137481323
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema written by Andrew Scahill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monstrous child is the allegorical queer child in various formations of horror cinema: the child with a secret, the child 'possessed' by Otherness, the changeling child, the terrible gang. This book explores the possibilities of 'not growing up' as a model for a queer praxis that confronts the notion of heternormative maturity.

Author : Debbie Olson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319482734
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Children in Hollywood Cinema written by Debbie Olson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores cultural conceptions of the child and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film. Debbie Olson argues that within the discourse of children’s studies and film scholarship in relation to the conception of “the child,” there is often little to no distinction among children by race—the “child” is most often discussed as a universal entity, as the embodiment of all things not adult, not (sexually) corrupt. Discussions about children of color among scholars often take place within contexts such as crime, drugs, urbanization, poverty, or lack of education that tend to reinforce historically stereotypical beliefs about African Americans. Olson looks at historical conceptions of childhood within scholarly discourse, the child character in popular film and what space the black child (both African and African American) occupies within that ideal.

Author : Deborah Martin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137528222
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema written by Deborah Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the child for Latin American cinema? This book aims to answer that question, tracing the common tendencies of the representation of the child in the cinema of Latin American countries, and demonstrating the place of the child in the movements, genres and styles that have defined that cinema. Deborah Martin combines theoretical readings of the child in cinema and culture, with discussions of the place of the child in specific national, regional and political contexts, to develop in-depth analyses and establish regional comparisons and trends. She pays particular attention to the narrative and stylistic techniques at play in the creation of the child's perspective, and to ways in which the presence of the child precipitates experiments with film aesthetics. Bringing together fresh readings of well-known films with attention to a range of little-studied works, The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema examines films from the recent and contemporary period, focussing on topics such as the death of the child in ‘street child’ films, the role of the child in post-dictatorship filmmaking and the use of child characters to challenge gender and sexual ideologies. The book also aims to place those analyses in a historical context, tracing links with important precursors, and paying attention to the legacy of the child’s figuring in the mid-century movements of melodrama and the New Latin American Cinema.

Author : Catherine Lester
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350135275
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horror Films for Children written by Catherine Lester and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media. Nowhere is this tension more clear than in horror films for adults, where the demonic child villain is one of the genre's most enduring tropes. However, horror for children is a unique category of contemporary Hollywood cinema in which children are addressed as an audience with specific needs, fears and desires, and where child characters are represented as sympathetic protagonists whose encounters with the horrific lead to cathartic, subversive and productive outcomes. Horror Films for Children examines the history, aesthetics and generic characteristics of children's horror films, and identifies the 'horrific child' as one of the defining features of the genre, where it is as much a staple as it is in adult horror but with vastly different representational, interpretative and affective possibilities. Through analysis of case studies including blockbuster hits (Gremlins), cult favourites (The Monster Squad) and indie darlings (Coraline), Catherine Lester asks, what happens to the horror genre, and the horrific children it represents, when children are the target audience?

Author : Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501318594
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema written by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The child has existed in cinema since the Lumière Brothers filmed their babies having messy meals in Lyons, but it is only quite recently that scholars have paid serious attention to her/his presence on screen. Scholarly discussion is now of the highest quality and of interest to anyone concerned not only with the extent to which adult cultural conversations invoke the figure of the child, but also to those interested in exploring how film cultures can shift questions of agency and experience in relation to subjectivity. Childhood and Nation in World Cinema recognizes that the range of films and scholarship is now sufficiently extensive to invoke the world cinema mantra of pluri-vocal and pluri-central attention and interpretation. At the same time, the importance of the child in figuring ideas of nationhood is an undiminished tic in adult cultural and social consciousness. Either the child on film provokes claims on the nation or the nation claims the child. Given the waning star of national film studies, and the widely held and serious concerns over the status of the nation as a meaningful cultural unit, the point here is not to assume some extraordinary pre-social geopolitical empathy of child and political entity. Rather, the present collection observes how and why and whether the cinematic child is indeed aligned to concepts of modern nationhood, to concerns of the State, and to geo-political organizational themes and precepts.