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Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Children's Film offers a uniquely comprehensive study of children's cinema from an interdisciplinary, nuanced, global perspective.
Table of ContentsList of Illustration About the Contributors Introduction: Coming to Terms with Children's Film, Noel Brown Part I.ENGenre and Form 1. Exploring Cultural and Social Differences in Defining a Children's Film, Becky Parry 2. Screening Innocence in Children's Film, Debbie Olson 3. Screen Adaptations of The Wizard of Oz and Metafilmicity in Children's Film, Ryan Bunch 4. Children's Films and the Avant-Garde, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer 5. Intertextuality and "Adult" Humour in Children's Film, Sam Summers 6. Children's Film and the Problematic "Happy Ending," Noel Brown Part IIENChildren, Childhood, and Growing Up 7. The Cop and the Kid in 1930s American Film, Pamela Robertson Wojcik 8. History, Forbidden Games, Children's Play, and Trauma Theory, Ian Wojcik-Andrews 9. Changing Conceptions of Childhood in the Work of the Children's Film Foundation, Robert Shail 10. Migrant Children and the "Space Between" in the Films of Angelopoulos, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald 11. Iranian Cinema and a World through the Eyes of a Child, John Stephens 12. The American Tween and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, Timothy Shary 13. Growing Up on Scandinavian Screens, Anders Lysne Part IIIENChildren's Film and Performance 14. Mary Pickford, Alma Taylor, and Girlhood in Early Hollywood and British Cinema, Matthew Smith 15. Craft and Play in Lotte Reiniger's Fairy-Tale Films, Caroline Ruddell 16. Disney's Musical Landscapes, Daniel Batchelder 17. Hayley Mills and the Disneyfication of Childhood, David Buckingham 18. Danny Kaye as Children's Film Star, Bruce Babington 19. Real Animals and the Problem of Anthropomorphism in Children's Film, Claudia Alonso-Recarte and Ignacio Ramos-Gay Part IVENChildren's Cinema, Society, and National Identity 20. Nation, Identity, and the Larrikin Streak in Australian Children's Cinema, Adrian Schober 21. Nationalism in Swedish Children's Film and the Case of Astrid Lindgren, Anders Wilhelm Åberg 22. Unreality, Fantasy, and the Anti-fascist Politics of the Children's Films of Satyajit Ray, Koel Banerjee 23. Gender, Ideology, and Nationalism in Chinese Children's Cinema, Yuhan Huang 24. Ethnic and Racial Difference in the Hungarian Animated Features Macskafogó/Cat City (1986) and Macskafogó 2/Cat City 2 (2007), Gábor Gergely 25. Negotiating East and West When Representing Childhood in Miyazaki's Spirited Away, Katherine Whitehurst 26. Coming of Age in South Korean Cinema, Sung-Ae Lee Part V.ENHollywood and Family Audiences 27. The Walt Disney Company, Family Entertainment, and Global Movie Hits, Peter Krämer 28. Reading Jason and the Argonauts as a Children's Film, Susan Smith 29. Hollywood and the Baby Boom Audience in the 1950s and 1960s, James Russell 30. Don Bluth and the Disney Renaissance, Peter C. Kunze 31. On "Love Experts," Evil Princes, Gullible Princesses, and Frozen, Amy M. Davis 32. Hollywood, Regulation, and the "Disappearing" Children's Film, Filipa Antunes Part VI. Audiences, Engagement, and Participatory Culture 33. How Children Learn to "Read" Movies, Cary Bazalgette 34. Star Wars, Children's Film Culture, and Fan Paratexts, Lincoln Geraghty 35. Norwegian Tween Girls and Everyday Life through Disney Tween Franchises, Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen 36. A Multimethod Study on Contemporary Young Audiences and Their Film/Cinema Discourses and Practices in Flanders, Belgium, Aleit Veenstra, Philippe Meers, and Daniël Biltereyst 37. An Empirical Report on Young People's Responses to Adult Fantasy Films, Martin Barker 38. Disney's Adult Audiences, James R. Mason Index
