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Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema - Borders and Encounters (Hardcover)
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Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema - Borders and Encounters (Hardcover)
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The child has existed in cinema since the Lumiere 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.
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