The Oxford handbook of children's film / edited by Noel Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Noel, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's films--History and criticism.

Children's films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Other Title:

Handbook of children's film

Children's film

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

'The Oxford Handbook of Children's Film' offers a uniquely comprehensive study of children's cinema from an interdisciplinary, nuanced, global perspective.

Contents:

Hayley Mills and the Disneyfication of Childhood / David Buckingham

Changing Conceptions of Childhood in the Work of The Children's Film Foundation / Robert Shail

Iranian Cinema and a World through the Eyes of a Child / John Stephens

Real Animals and the Problem of Anthropomorphism in Children's Film / Claudia Alonso-Recarte, Ignacio Ramos-Gay

Nationalism in Swedish Children's Film and the Case of Astrid Lindgren / Anders Wilhelm Åberg

Nation, Identity, and the Larrikin Streak in Australian Children's Cinema / Adrian Schober

Ethnic and Racial Difference in the Hungarian Animated Features Macskafogó/Cat City (1986) and Macskafogó 2/Cat City 2 (2007) / Gábor Gergely

Unreality, Fantasy, and the Anti-Fascist Politics of the Children's Films of Satyajit Ray / Koel Banerjee

Gender, Ideology, and Nationalism in Chinese Children's Cinema / Yuhan Huang

Exploring Cultural and Social Differences in Defining a Children's Film / Becky Parry

Negotiating East and West When Representing Childhood in Miyazaki's Spirited Away / Katherine Whitehurst

Screen Adaptations of The Wizard of Oz and Metafilmicity in Children's Film / Ryan Bunch

The Cop and the Kid in 1930s American Film / Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Hollywood and the Baby Boom Audience in the 1950s and 1960s / James Russell

Reading Jason and the Argonauts as a Children's Film / Susan Smith

The Walt Disney Company, Family Entertainment, and Hollywood's Global Hits / Peter Krämer

Don Bluth and the Disney Renaissance / Peter C. Kunze

On "Love Experts," Evil Princes, Gullible Princesses, and Frozen / Amy M. Davis

The American Tween and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema / Timothy Shary

Migrant Children and the "Space Between" in the Films of Angelopoulos / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

Children's Films and the Avant-garde / Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

Growing Up on Scandinavian Screens / Anders Lysne

Coming-of-Age in South Korean Cinema / Sung-Ae Lee

Hollywood, Regulation, and the "Disappearing" Children's Film / Filipa Antunes

How Children Learn to "Read" Movies / Cary Bazalgette

Star Wars, Children's Film Culture, and Fan Paratexts / Lincoln Geraghty

Norwegian Tween Girls and Everyday Life through Disney Tween Franchises / Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen

A Multimethod Study on Contemporary Young Audiences and their Film/Cinema Discourses and Practices in Flanders, Belgium / Aleit Veenstra, Philippe Meers, Daniël Biltereyst

An Empirical Report on Young People's Responses to Adult Fantasy Films / Martin Barker

Disney's Adult Audiences / James R. Mason

Disney's Musical Landscapes / Daniel Batchelder

Introduction: Coming to Terms with Children's Film / Noel Brown

Alma Taylor, Mary Pickford, and Girlhood in Early British and Hollywood Cinema / Matthew Smith

Craft and Play in Lotte Reiniger's Fairy Tale Films / Caroline Ruddell

Danny Kaye as Children's Film Star / Bruce Babington

Intertextuality and "Adult" Humour in Children's Film / Sam Summers

Children's Film and the Problematic "Happy Ending" / Noel Brown

Screening Innocence in Children's Film / Debbie Olson

History, Forbidden Games, Children's Play, and Trauma Theory / Ian Wojcik-Andrews.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 12, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780190939380 (ebook) :

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.