Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood - Transforming Children's Literature into Film (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
Release date:	2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	R. Mccallum
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-39540-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Children's literature studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
LSN:	1-137-39540-0
Barcode:	9781137395405

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