The Cinematic Child
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The Child In Film
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Author : Karen Lury
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2010-03-30
The Child In Film written by Karen Lury and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-30 with Performing Arts categories.
Ghastly and ghostly children, 'dirty little white girls', the child as witness and as victim, have always played an important part in the history of cinema, as have child performers themselves. In exploring the disruptive power of the child in films made for an adult audience across popular films, including "Taxi Driver" and Japanese horror, and 'art-house' productions like "Mirror" and "Pan's Labyrinth", Karen Lury investigates why the figure of the child has such a significant impact on the visual aspects and storytelling potential of cinema.Lury's main argument is that the child as a liminal yet powerful agent has allowed filmmakers to play adventurously with cinema's formal conventions - with far-reaching consequences. In particular, she reveals how a child's relationship to time allows it to disturb and question conventional master-narratives. She explores too the investment in the child actor and expression of child sexuality, as well as how confining and conservative existing assumptions can be in terms of commonly held beliefs as to who children 'really are'.
The Child In World Cinema
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Author : Debbie Olson
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2018-02-19
The Child In World Cinema written by Debbie Olson and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-19 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Uncanny Child In Transnational Cinema
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Author : Jessica Balanzategui
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-11
The Uncanny Child In Transnational Cinema written by Jessica Balanzategui and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-11 with Art categories.
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.
The Child In Spanish Cinema
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Author : Sarah Wright
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-08
The Child In Spanish Cinema written by Sarah Wright and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with Art categories.
In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'. The central theme of the child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of the self to the past, and to cinema. Focusing on the films from the 1950s to the present day, the book explores religious films, musicals, 'art-house horror', science fiction, social realism and fantasy in Spanish film and includes reference to Erice's The Spirit of The Beehive, del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, Mañas's El Bola and the Marisol films. The book draws on a century of filmmaking in Spain and also intersects with recent revelations concerning the horrors of the Spanish past. The child is a potent motif for the loss of historical memory and for its recuperation through cinema. This book is suitable for scholars and undergraduates working in the area of Spanish cinema, Spanish cultural studies, and cinema studies.
The Child In British Cinema
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Author : Matthew Smith
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2023-08-06
The Child In British Cinema written by Matthew Smith and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-06 with Performing Arts categories.
This book argues that over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the cinema in Britain became the site on which childhood was projected, examined, and understood. Through an analysis of these projections; via case studies that encompass early cinema, pre and post-war film, and contemporary cinema; this book interprets the child in British cinema as a device through which to reflect upon issues of national culture, race, empire, class, and gender. Beginning with a discussion of early cinematic depictions of the child in Britain, this book examines cultural expressions of nationhood produced via non-commercial cinemas for children. It considers the way cinema encroaches on the moral edification of the child and the ostensible vibrancy and vitality of the British boy in post-war cinema. The author explores the representational and instrumental differences between depictions of boys and girls before extending this discussion to investigate the treatment of migrant, refugee, and immigrant children in British cinema. It ends by recapitulating these arguments through a discussion of internationally successful British blockbuster cinema. The child in this study is a mobile figure, deployed across generic boundaries, throughout the history of British cinema and embodying a range of discourses regarding the health and wellbeing of the nation.
Cinema S Missing Children
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Author : Emma Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Release Date : 2003
Cinema S Missing Children written by Emma Wilson and has been published by Wallflower Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 Child In Cinema
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Author : Karen Lury
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-08-25
The Child In Cinema written by Karen Lury and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-25 with Performing Arts categories.
This book brings together a host of internationally recognised scholars to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the representation of the child in cinema. Individual chapters examine how children appear across a broad range of films, including Badlands (1973), Ratcatcher (1999), Boyhood (2014), My Neighbour Totoro (1988), and Howl's Moving Castle (2004). They also consider the depiction of children in non-fiction and non-theatrical films, including the documentaries Être et Avoir (2002) and Capturing the Friedmans (2003), art installations and public information films. Through a close analysis of these films, contributors examine the spaces and places children inhabit and imagine; a concern for children's rights and agency; the affective power of the child as a locus for memory and history; and the complexity and ambiguity of the child figure itself. The essays also argue the global reach of cinema featuring children, including analyses of films from the former Yugoslavia, Brazil and India, as well as exploring the labour of the child both in front of and behind the camera as actors and filmmakers. In doing so, the book provides an in-depth look into the nature of child performance on screen, across a diverse range of cinemas and film-making practices.
Children S Films
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Author : Ian Wojik-Andrews
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-09
Children S Films written by Ian Wojik-Andrews and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study examines children's films from various critical perspectives, including those provided by classical and current film theory.
The Child In Contemporary Latin American Cinema
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Author : Deborah Martin
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-01-04
The Child In Contemporary Latin American Cinema written by Deborah Martin and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-04 with Performing Arts categories.
What is the child for Latin American cinema? This book aims to answer that question, tracing the common tendencies of the representation of the child in the cinema of Latin American countries, and demonstrating the place of the child in the movements, genres and styles that have defined that cinema. Deborah Martin combines theoretical readings of the child in cinema and culture, with discussions of the place of the child in specific national, regional and political contexts, to develop in-depth analyses and establish regional comparisons and trends. She pays particular attention to the narrative and stylistic techniques at play in the creation of the child's perspective, and to ways in which the presence of the child precipitates experiments with film aesthetics. Bringing together fresh readings of well-known films with attention to a range of little-studied works, The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema examines films from the recent and contemporary period, focussing on topics such as the death of the child in ‘street child’ films, the role of the child in post-dictatorship filmmaking and the use of child characters to challenge gender and sexual ideologies. The book also aims to place those analyses in a historical context, tracing links with important precursors, and paying attention to the legacy of the child’s figuring in the mid-century movements of melodrama and the New Latin American Cinema.
Children In The Films Of Steven Spielberg
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Author : Adrian Schober
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-04-13
Children In The Films Of Steven Spielberg written by Adrian Schober and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-13 with Social Science categories.
This collection, representing the work of scholars from a range of theoretical frameworks and disciplines, examines aspects of the preoccupation with children and childhood in Steven Spielberg’s films. It includes essays on such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, Hook, Jurassic Park, and more.
