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Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the yellow brick road, ruby slippers and Oz. But this book begins with Dorothy and her legacy as an archetypal touchstone in cinema for the child journeying far from home. In
There's No Place Like Home, distinguished film scholar Stephanie Hemelryk Donald offers a fresh interpretation of the migrant child as a recurring figure in world cinema. Displaced or placeless children, and the idea of childhood itself, are vehicles to examine migration and cosmopolitanism in films such as
Le Ballon Rouge,
Little Moth and
Le Havre. Surveying fictional and documentary film from the post-war years until today, the author shows how the child is a guide to themes of place, self and being in world cinema.
Trade ReviewA deeply felt, compassionate, necessary book. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * W.W. Dixon, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, CHOICE *
Table of ContentsChapter One: The Dorothy Complex Chapter Two: The Red Balloon and Squirt’s Journey: story-telling with child migrants Chapter Three: Once My Mother, Welcome and Le Havre: breath and the child cosmopolitan Chapter Four: Little Moth and The Road: precarity, immobility and inertia Chapter Five: Landscape in the Mist Chapter Six: The Leaving of Liverpool: Empire and religion, poetry and the archive Chapter Seven: Diamonds of the Night Afterword: Where have all the children gone? Endnotes
