The Children's Film : Genre, Nation, and Narrative / Noel Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Noel, author.

Series:

Short cuts (London, England)

Short Cuts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's films--History and criticism.

Children's films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (124 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Films for children and young people are a constant in the history of cinema, from its beginnings to the present day. This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to the children's film, examining its recurrent themes and ideologies, and common narrative and stylistic principles. Opening with a thorough consideration of how the genre may be defined, this volume goes on to explore how children's cinema has developed across its broad historical and geographic span, with particular reference to films from the United States, Britain, France, Denmark, Russia, India, and China. Analyzing changes and continuities in how children's film has been conceived, it argues for a fundamental distinction between commercial productions intended primarily to entertain, and non-commercial films made under pedagogical principles, and produced for purposes of moral and behavioral instruction. In elaborating these different forms, this book outlines a history of children's cinema from the early days of commercial cinema to the present, explores key critical issues, and provides case studies of major children's films from around the world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. The Children's Film

2. Hollywood, Children's Cinema and the Family Audience

3. Children's Film, Nation and Identity

4. Contemporary Children's Cinema: National and Transnational Trends

Postscript

Select Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

"A Wallflower Press book"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780231851114

OCLC:

1054872478