Description
The Oxford Handbook of Children's Film is the most comprehensive study of international children's cinema published to date. Overturning common prejudices that films for children are unworthy of serious attention, it presents nuanced and wide-ranging discussions from senior and junior scholars alike of iconic and neglected productions from Hollywood, Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Iran, Kenya, and several other countries. Featuring contributions by leading scholars in the field, the volume considers a range of issues central to the study of children's film, including questions of form and definition; representations of childhood and growing up; music, stardom, and performance; how children's films reflect national identity or serve as vehicles of state ideology and propaganda; the phenomenon of Hollywood 'family entertainment', especially the role of the Disney company; and how children and young people (as well as older audiences) engage with children's film culture. As a whole, the volume makes a substantial contribution to the emerging field of children's film studies, and will be of great interest to scholars of children's media and culture more broadly.
Table of Contents
List of IllustrationAbout the ContributorsIntroduction: Coming to Terms with Children's Film, Noel BrownPart I.ENGenre and Form1. Exploring Cultural and Social Differences in Defining a Children's Film, Becky Parry2. Screening Innocence in Children's Film, Debbie Olson3. Screen Adaptations of The Wizard of Oz and Metafilmicity in Children's Film, Ryan Bunch4. Children's Films and the Avant-Garde, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer5. Intertextuality and "Adult" Humour in Children's Film, Sam Summers6. Children's Film and the Problematic "Happy Ending," Noel BrownPart IIENChildren, Childhood, and Growing Up7. The Cop and the Kid in 1930s American Film, Pamela Robertson Wojcik8. History, Forbidden Games, Children's Play, and Trauma Theory, Ian Wojcik-Andrews9. Changing Conceptions of Childhood in the Work of the Children's Film Foundation, Robert Shail10. Migrant Children and the "Space Between" in the Films of Angelopoulos, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald11. Iranian Cinema and a World through the Eyes of a Child, John Stephens12. The American Tween and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, Timothy Shary13. Growing Up on Scandinavian Screens, Anders LysnePart IIIENChildren's Film and Performance14. Mary Pickford, Alma Taylor, and Girlhood in Early Hollywood and British Cinema, Matthew Smith15. Craft and Play in Lotte Reiniger's Fairy-Tale Films, Caroline Ruddell16. Disney's Musical Landscapes, Daniel Batchelder17. Hayley Mills and the Disneyfication of Childhood, David Buckingham18. Danny Kaye as Children's Film Star, Bruce Babington19. Real Animals and the Problem of Anthropomorphism in Children's Film, Claudia Alonso-Recarte and Ignacio Ramos-GayPart IVENChildren's Cinema, Society, and National Identity20. Nation, Identity, and the Larrikin Streak in Australian Children's Cinema, Adrian Schober21. Nationalism in Swedish Children's Film and the Case of Astrid Lindgren, Anders Wilhelm Åberg22. Unreality, Fantasy, and the Anti-fascist Politics of the Children's Films of Satyajit Ray, Koel Banerjee23. Gender, Ideology, and Nationalism in Chinese Children's Cinema, Yuhan Huang24. Ethnic and Racial Difference in the Hungarian Animated Features Macskafogó/Cat City (1986) and Macskafogó 2/Cat City 2 (2007), Gábor Gergely25. Negotiating East and West When Representing Childhood in Miyazaki's Spirited Away, Katherine Whitehurst26. Coming of Age in South Korean Cinema, Sung-Ae LeePart V.ENHollywood and Family Audiences27. The Walt Disney Company, Family Entertainment, and Global Movie Hits, Peter Krämer28. Reading Jason and the Argonauts as a Children's Film, Susan Smith29. Hollywood and the Baby Boom Audience in the 1950s and 1960s, James Russell30. Don Bluth and the Disney Renaissance, Peter C. Kunze31. On "Love Experts," Evil Princes, Gullible Princesses, and Frozen, Amy M. Davis32. Hollywood, Regulation, and the "Disappearing" Children's Film, Filipa AntunesPart VI. Audiences, Engagement, and Participatory Culture33. How Children Learn to "Read" Movies, Cary Bazalgette34. Star Wars, Children's Film Culture, and Fan Paratexts, Lincoln Geraghty35. Norwegian Tween Girls and Everyday Life through Disney Tween Franchises, Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen36. A Multimethod Study on Contemporary Young Audiences and Their Film/Cinema Discourses and Practices in Flanders, Belgium, Aleit Veenstra, Philippe Meers, and Daniël Biltereyst37. An Empirical Report on Young People's Responses to Adult Fantasy Films, Martin Barker38. Disney's Adult Audiences, James R. MasonIndex
