Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood [electronic resource] : Transforming Children's Literature into Film /
McCallum, Robyn.author.
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. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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. .
Children's literature.
Motion pictures.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Film genres.
Children's Literature.
Adaptation Studies.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Genre.