Contemporary children's literature and film
Subtitle: engaging with theory
By: edited by Kerry Mallan and Clare Bradford
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780230231504
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature; Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; History and criticism; Children's literature; Books and reading; Children's films; Children; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
Description: "Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for young people. Integrating perspectives from across feminism, ecocriticism, postcolonialism and poststructuralism, it demonstrates how these inform approaches to a range of contemporary literature and film"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Figures; title: Introduction: Bringing Back Theory; K.Mallan & C.Bradford; title: Schemas and Scripts: Cognitive Instruments and the Representation of Cultural Diversity in Children's Literature; J.Stephens; title: Journeying Subjects: Spatiality and Identity in Children's Texts; C.Bradford & R.Baccolini; title: Local and Global: Cultural Globalisation, Consumerism and Children's Fiction; E.Bullen & K.Mallan; title: Monstrous Women: Gothic Misogyny in Monster House; M.Takolander; title: Splitting the Difference: Pleasure, Desire and Intersubjectivity in Children's Literature and Film; C.Wilkie-Stubbs; title: Children as Ecocitizens: Ecocriticism and Environmental Texts; G.Massey& C.Bradford; title: From 'Wizard' to 'Wicked': Adaptation Theory and Young Adult Fiction; D.Buchbinder; title: All That Matters: Technoscience, Critical Theory and Children's Fiction; K.Mallan; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Index.