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The Palgrave Handbook of Children's Film and Television

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Discusses a wide, international variety of children’s film and television

  • Provides a contemporary focus both in the selection of examples and scholarly approaches

  • Includes chapters on the industry and on the pedagogical use of screen media in youth education

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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. Children’s Film and Television: Contexts and New Directions

    • Casie Hermansson, Janet Zepernick
    Pages 1-33
  3. The Possibility of Childhood: Gaining Experience Without Coming of Age

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
    2. The Reign of Childhood in Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom

      • Maria-Josee Mendez Troutman
      Pages 187-203
  4. Adult Discourses in Children’s Film

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
  5. Identity, Race, and Class

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-295

About this book

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. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pittsburg State University , Pittsburg, USA

    Casie Hermansson, Janet Zepernick

About the editors

Casie Hermansson is Professor of English at Pittsburg State University, USA, and is a Fulbright Scholar. She is the author of several books, most recently: Filming the Children’s Book: Adapting Metafiction (2019) and is co-editor with Janet Zepernick of Where is Adaptation? (2018). 

Janet Zepernick is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at Pittsburg State University, USA, and is co-editor of the collections Women and Rhetoric between the Wars (2013) and Where Is Adaptation? (2018).



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Children's Film and Television

  • Editors: Casie Hermansson, Janet Zepernick

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17620-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17619-8Published: 11 June 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17622-8Published: 14 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17620-4Published: 28 May 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 594

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Screen Studies, Youth Culture

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Softcover Book USD 249.99
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