Radical children's film and television / edited by Noel Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Noel, editor.

Series:

Children's Film and Television Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2025]

Summary:

An exploration of radical children's film and television from around the world.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part I: Questions of Theory and Practice

1. Is a Radical Children's Film and Television Possible?

2. What is Radical Television for Children? A Transnational and Historical Exploration from Left to Right

3. Revolt in a Boarding School: Aesthetic and Political Radicalism in the French Children's Film Zéro de conduite (Zero for Conduct) by Jean Vigo

4. The Problem of Audience: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., Dr Seuss and the Children's Film

5. What Do You Mean, 'Horrible'? The Radicalism of Horrible Histories

Part II: Subversive Social Commentary

6. Dick and Dom in da Place/Space to Be: 'Bogies' as Situationist-Carnival

7. Children's Films and Cosmology

8. Worlds Apart: Growing Pains and Radical Politics in Xhanfise Keko's Pas Gjurmëve

9. 'No, there will never be a dictatorship again in Argentina': Remembering the Dictatorship (1976-83) and Empowering the Child Citizen in Argentinian Animation

Part III: Manifestos for Change

10. Radical Rodents and Suffering Hounds in Don Bluth's The Secret of NIMH and Martin Rosen's The Plague Dogs

11. 'How Far Would You Go?': Conceptualising Extremist Youth Activism in International Screen Adaptations of The Third Wave Social Experiment

12. (Re)orientations for Living with Toxicity in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Part IV: Radical Experiments

13. Breaking Taboos: Swedish Children's TV in the Radical Era of the 1970s

14. Welshness, Class and Sexuality: A Thematic Reading of The Owl Service (1970)

15. Animated Traumas: The Films of Anita Killi

16. Assemblages of Wonder and Ecologies of Sound in Bluey and Summer Camp Island

Part V: Audiences, Participation and Appropriation.

17. Do Babies and Toddlers Need Radical Films and TV?

18. A Message Movie (Un)Suitable for Children? Public Debates About the Politics and Audiences of Avatar (2009)

19. From Courage the Cowardly Dog to the Creepypasta: Formal Destabilisation and Direct Address in Children's Horror Television

20. F is for Friends, G is for Gay: Bert, Ernie and the Radical Potential of Childhood's Queer Friendships

21. Children's Film Festivals as Potential Spaces for Radical Content/Consumption

Afterword

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781399536073

1399536079

OCLC:

1512318731