The Children's Film : : Genre, Nation, and Narrative / / Noel Brown.
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 wit...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Short Cuts
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 16 b&w illustrations |
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Other title: | 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 |
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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231851114 9783110543308 9783110603088 9783110603972 9783110604252 9783110603255 |
DOI: | 10.7312/brow18269 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Noel Brown. |