The Palgrave Handbook of Children's Film and Television

Description

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 and its role as both a source of entertainment and pedagogy. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii Children’s Film and Television: Contexts and New Directions (Casie Hermansson, Janet Zepernick)....Pages 1-33 Front Matter ....Pages 35-35 Adaptations for Young Audiences: Critical Challenges, Future Directions (Robyn McCallum)....Pages 37-54 Easy A(daptation): Sex, Fidelity, and Constructing the Unknowing-Knowing PG-13 Teen Audience (Casie Hermansson)....Pages 55-74 In Medias Res: The Remediation of Time in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (Madeleine Hunter)....Pages 75-92 Revisiting Comfort Women History and Representing Trauma in South Korean Films Never Ending Story and Herstory (Ian Wojcik-Andrews, Hyun-Joo Yoo)....Pages 93-110 New Shoes, Old Paths: Disney’s Cinderella(s) (Sally King)....Pages 111-129 Reimagining Alice Through the Intertextual Realm of Children’s Film and Television (Jade Dillon)....Pages 131-146 Front Matter ....Pages 147-147 It’s Alive … AGAIN: Redefining Children’s Film Through Animated Horror (Megan Troutman)....Pages 149-165 From Anxiety to Well-Being: Openings and Endings of Children’s Films from Japan and South Korea (Sung-Ae Lee, John Stephens)....Pages 167-186 The Reign of Childhood in Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom (Maria-Josee Mendez Troutman)....Pages 187-203 Growing Up in the Upside Down: Youth Horror and Diversity in Stranger Things (Jamie McDaniel)....Pages 205-222 Front Matter ....Pages 223-223 Change and Continuity in Contemporary Children’s Cinema (Noel Brown)....Pages 225-243 Entering the Labyrinth of Ethics in Guillermo del Toro’s El laberinto del fauno (Evy Varsamopoulou)....Pages 245-260 Male Wombs: The Automaton and Techno-Nurturance in Hugo (Holly Blackford)....Pages 261-277 Constructing Childhood in Modern Iranian Children’s Cinema: A Cultural History (Amir Ali Nojoumian)....Pages 279-294 Front Matter ....Pages 295-295 Dancing in Reality: Imagery Narration and Chinese Children’s Film in the New Millennium (Fengxia Tan, Lidong Xiang)....Pages 297-313 In Search of the Elusive Bird: Childhood from the Margins in Fandry (Sonia Ghalian)....Pages 315-328 Re/Presenting Marginalized Children in Contemporary Children’s Cinema in India: A Study of Gattu and Stanley ka Dabba (Devika Mehra)....Pages 329-344 Power, Prejudice, Predators, and Pets: Representation in Animated Animal Films (Meghann Meeusen)....Pages 345-361 Front Matter ....Pages 363-363 Negotiating National Boundaries in Recent British Children’s Cinema and Television (Robert Shail)....Pages 365-378 Global Stories, Local Imagination: Glocal Innovations in Filipino Children’s Films (Anna Katrina Gutierrez)....Pages 379-398 The Iron Curtain Opens: The History of Hungarian Children’s Television in Five Acts (Katalin Lustyik)....Pages 399-414 Front Matter ....Pages 415-415 Children’s Literature on Screen: Developing a Model of Literacy Assets (Lucy Taylor, Jeannie Bulman)....Pages 417-434 Pedagogies of Production: Reimagining Literacies for the Digital Age (Michelle Cannon, John Potter)....Pages 435-450 Bridging Urban/Rural and Digital Divides: New Directions in Youth Media Education (Steven Goodman)....Pages 451-468 Film, Arts Education, and Cognition: The Case of Le Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse (Mark Reid)....Pages 469-484 Front Matter ....Pages 485-485 Perpetuating Gender Stereotypes from Birth: Analysis of TV Programs for Viewers in Diapers (Dafna Lemish, Nelly Elias)....Pages 487-505 Data Science, Disney, and the Future of Children’s Entertainment (Siobhan O’Flynn)....Pages 507-531 Never-Ending Sequels? Seriality in Children’s Films (Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer)....Pages 533-547 Contemporary Children’s Film, CGI, and the Child Viewer’s Attention (Michael Brodski)....Pages 549-565 Finding the Hidden Child: The (Im)Possibility of Children’s Films (Becky Parry)....Pages 567-583 Back Matter ....Pages 585-594