Childhood and Cinema
Title | Childhood and Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Vicky Lebeau |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2008-05-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781861893529 |
Vicky Lebeau investigates how films use children to probe such themes as sexuality, death, imagination, the terrors of childhood, and hope.
Childhood and Cinema
Title | Childhood and Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Vicky Lebeau |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2008-05-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781861893529 |
Vicky Lebeau investigates how films use children to probe such themes as sexuality, death, imagination, the terrors of childhood, and hope.
The Child in World Cinema
Title | The Child in World Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Debbie Olson |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Total Pages | 515 |
Release | 2018-02-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1498563813 |
This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege a Western ideal. Rather, this collection seeks to broaden our ideas about children, childhood, and the child’s place in the global community. This collection features a wide variety of contributors from around the world who offer compelling analyses of non-Western, non-Hollywood films starring children.
Cinema's Missing Children
Title | Cinema's Missing Children PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Wilson |
Publisher | Wallflower Press |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781903364505 |
Photographs of missing children are some of the most haunting images of contemporary Western society. Wilson contends that the loss of a child is perceived as a limit-experience in contemporary cinema, where filmmakers attempt to transform their means of representation as a response to acute pain and horror. She explores the representation of missing and endangered children in a number of the key films of the last decade, including Kieslowski's Three Colours: Blue, Atom Egoyan's Exotica, Todd Solondz's Happiness, Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady, Lars von Trier's The Kingdom, and Almodovar's All About My Mother.
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema
Title | The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Balanzategui |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | 341 |
Release | 2018-12-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9048537797 |
This book illustrates how global horror film images of children re-conceptualised childhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century, unravelling the child's long entrenched binding to ideologies of growth, futurity, and progress. The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema analyses an influential body of horror films featuring subversive depictions of children that emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and considers the cultural conditions surrounding their emergence. The book proposes that complex cultural and industrial shifts at the turn of the millennium resulted in potent cinematic renegotiations of the concept of childhood. In these transnational films-largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and America-the child resists embodying growth and futurity, concepts to which the child's symbolic function is typically bound. By demonstrating both the culturally specific and globally resonant properties of these frightening visions of children who refuse to grow up, the book outlines the conceptual and aesthetic mechanisms by which long entrenched ideologies of futurity, national progress, and teleological history started to waver at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema
Title | Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Debbie C. Olson |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Total Pages | 359 |
Release | 2012-05-18 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0739170260 |
Children have been a part of the cinematic landscape since the silent film era, yet children are rarely a part of the theoretical landscape of film analysis. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema, edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill, seeks to remedy that oversight. Throughout the over one-hundred year history of cinema, the image of the child has been inextricably bound to filmic storytelling and has been equally bound to notions of romantic innocence and purity. This collection reveals, however, that there is a body of work that provides a counter note of darkness to the traditional portraits of sweetness and light. Particularly since the mid-twentieth century, there are a growing number of cinematic works that depict childhood has as a site of knowingness, despair, sexuality, death, and madness. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema challenges notions of the innocent child through an exploration of the dark side of childhood in contemporary cinema. The contributors to this multidisciplinary study offer a global perspective that explores the multiple conditions of marginalized childhood as cinematically imagined within political, geographical, sociological, and cultural contexts.
Child of Paradise
Title | Child of Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Baron Turk |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 518 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780674114609 |
Traces the career of the influential French director and uses psychoanalytical concepts to analyze his major films.