Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood: Transforming Children's Literature into Film (Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture)

This book features a cutting edge approach to the study of film adaptations of literature for children and young people, and the narratives about childhood those adaptations enact. Historically, film media has always had a partiality for the adaptation of æclassicÆ literary texts for children. As economic and cultural commodities, McCallum points out how such screen adaptations play a crucial role in the cultural reproduction and transformation of childhood and youth, and indeed are a rich resource for the examination of changing cultural values and ideologies, particularly around contested narratives of childhood. The chapters examine various representations of childhood: as shifting states of innocence and wildness, liminality, marginalisation and invisibility. The book focuses on a range of literary and film genres, from æclassicÆ texts, to experimental, carnivalesque, magical realist, and cross-cultural texts.

• | Author: Robyn McCallum
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Feb 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 289 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1137395400
• | ISBN-13: 9781137395405