Overview

This volume explores film and television for children and youth. While children’s film and television vary in form and content from country to country, their youth audience, ranging from infants to “screenagers”, is the defining feature of the genre and is written into the DNA of the medium itself. This collection offers a contemporary analysis of film and television designed for this important audience, with particular attention to new directions evident in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. With examples drawn from Iran, China, Korea, India, Israel, Eastern Europe, the Philippines, and France, as well as from the United States and the United Kingdom, contributors address a variety of issues ranging from content to production, distribution, marketing, and the use of film, both as object and medium, in education. Through a diverse consideration of media for young infants up to young adults, this volume reveals the newest trends in children’s film and television andits role as both a source of entertainment and pedagogy. 

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Author:   Casie Hermansson ,  Janet Zepernick
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.943kg
ISBN:  

9783030176228

ISBN 10:   3030176223
Pages:   594
Publication Date:   14 August 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: History, Contexts, and New Directions in Children’s Film and Television, Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick.- Part I: Adaptation and Intertextuality in Children’s Television and Film.- 2. Adaptations for Young Audiences: Critical Challenges, Future Directions, Robyn McCallum.- 3. Easy A(daptation): Sex, Fidelity, and Constructing the Unknowing-Knowing PG-13 Teen Audience, Casie Hermansson.- 4. In Medias Res: The Remediation of Time in Lemony Snicket’s a Series of Unfortunate Events, Madeleine Hunter.- 5. Revisiting the History of Comfort Women and Representing Trauma in the South Korean Films, A Never-Ending Story and Herstory, Ian Wojcik-Andrews and Hyun-Joo Yoo.- 6. New Shoes, Old Paths: Disney’s Cinderella(s), Sally King.- 7. Reimagining Alice through the Intertextual Realm of Children’s Film and Television, Jade Dillon.- Part II: The Possibility of Childhood: Gaining Experience without Coming of Age.- 8. It’s Alive . . . AGAIN: Redefining Children’s Film through Animated Horror, Megan Troutman.- 9. From Anxiety to Well-being: Openings and Endings of Children’s Films from Japan and South Korea, Sung-Ae Lee and John Stephens.- 10. The Reign of Childhood in Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, Maria-Josee Mendez.- 11. Growing Up in the Upside Down: Youth Horror and Diversity in Stranger Things, Jamie McDaniel.- Part III: Adult Discourses in Children's Film.- 12. Change and Continuity in Contemporary Children’s Cinema, Noel Brown.- 13. Entering the Labyrinth of Ethics in Guillermo del Toro’s El laberinto del fauno, Evy Varsamopoulou.- 14. Male Wombs: The Automaton and Techno-Nurturance in Hugo, Holly Blackford.- 15. Constructing Childhood in Modern Iranian Children’s Cinema: A Cultural History, Amir Ali Nojoumian.- Part IV: Identity, Race, and Class.- 16. Dancing in Reality: Imagery Narration and Chinese Children’s Film in the New Millennium, Fengxia Tan and Lidong Xiang.- 17. In Search of the Elusive Bird: Childhood from the Margins in Fandry, Sonia Ghalian.- 18. Re/presenting Marginalized Children in Contemporary Children’s Cinema in India: A Study of Gattu and Stanley ka Dabba, Devika Mehra.- 19. Power, Prejudice, Predators, and Pets: Representation in Animated Animal Films, Meghann Meeusen.- Part V: The Tension Between Global and Local.- 20. Negotiating National Boundaries in Recent British Children’s Cinema and Television, Robert Shail.- 21. Global Stories, Local Imagination: Glocal Innovations in Filipino Children’s Films, Anna Katrina Gutierrez.- 22. The Iron Curtain Opens: The History of Hungarian Children’s Television inFive Acts, Katalin Lustyik.- Part VI: Film Literacy and Education.- 23. Children’s Literature on Screen: Developing a Model of Literacy Assets, Lucy Taylor and Jeannie Bulman.- 24. Pedagogies of Production: Reimagining Literacies for the Digital Age, Michelle Cannon and John Potter.- 25. Bridging Urban/Rural and Digital Divides: New Directions in Youth Media Education, Steven Goodman.- 26. Film, Arts Education, and Cognition: The Case of Le Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse, Mark Reid.- Part VII: The Influence of Form and Platform.- 27. Perpetuating Gender Stereotypes from Birth: Analysis of TV Programs for Viewers in Diapers, Dafna Lemish and Nelly Elias.- 28. Big Data and the Future of Children’s Entertainment, Siobhan O’Flynn.- 29. Never-Ending Sequels? Seriality in Children’s Films, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer.- 30. Contemporary Children’s Film, CGI, and the Child Viewer’s Attention, Michael Brodski.- 31. Finding the Hidden Child: The (Im)Possibility of Children’s Films, Becky Parry.

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Casie Hermansson is Professor of English at Pittsburg State University, USA, and is a Fulbright Scholar. She is the author of several books, most recently: Filming the Children’s Book: Adapting Metafiction (2019) and is co-editor with Janet Zepernick of Where is Adaptation? (2018).  Janet Zepernick is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at Pittsburg State University, USA, and is co-editor of the collections Women and Rhetoric between the Wars (2013) and Where Is Adaptation? (2018).

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