Overview
- First single-authored monograph on screen adaptations of texts for children and young people
- Develops a cohesive and conceptually framed analysis of texts in a range of genres
- Views adaptation as a dialogic process that results in an intricate web of intertextuality
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PSADVC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 ‘classic’ 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 ‘classic’ texts, to experimental, carnivalesque, magical realist, and cross-cultural texts.
Reviews
“Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood: Transforming Children’s Literature into Film is an exciting contribution to the area of adaptation studies. … This book should be of particular interest to scholars working in film adaptation studies, and especially to those whose research addresses the filmic adaptation of children’s literature.” (The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 43 (2), April, 2019)
“McCallum’s astute and wide ranging ‘sequel’ to her earlier Retelling Stories (with John Stephens) brings up-to-the-minute conversations in adaptation to bear on oft-neglected children’s genres. The result is an illuminating and confident study, from a recognized expert in the field, of ways in which children’s literature and film continue to expand boundaries and challenge expectations. A must read for anyone interested in youth media and adaptation.” (Casie Hermansson, Professor of English Literature at Pittsburg State University, USA)“McCallum’s study will provide children’s literature and culture scholars the critical resources for studying the considerable number and types of adaptations in this area. Drawing from the critical tools found in the burgeoning adaptation field, the study considers the ideological functions, audiences (real and implied), and cultural effects of adaptations of children’s stories. Readers familiar with John Stephens’ and Robyn McCallum’s influential Retelling Stories, Framing Culture can consider this an excellent sequel to that work.” (Mike Cadden, Professor of English and Director of Childhood Studies, Missouri Western State University, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood
Book Subtitle: Transforming Children's Literature into Film
Authors: Robyn McCallum
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39541-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-39540-5Published: 31 January 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-39541-2Published: 16 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-629X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6303
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 280
Topics: Children's Literature, Adaptation Studies, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Genre