Author: Debbie Olson
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498563813
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
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 Child in World Cinema
Author: Debbie Olson
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498563813
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498563813
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
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
Author: Jessica Balanzategui
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9048537797
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9048537797
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
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 Children's Book of the Movies
Author: DK Publishing, Inc
Publisher: DK Children
ISBN: 9781465416629
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides information about movies, chronicling their history from the early moving pictures to today; detailing how stunts and screen writing are done; and profiling famous actors, producers, and directors.
Publisher: DK Children
ISBN: 9781465416629
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides information about movies, chronicling their history from the early moving pictures to today; detailing how stunts and screen writing are done; and profiling famous actors, producers, and directors.
Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema
Author: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501318594
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The child has existed in cinema since the Lumière Brothers filmed their babies having messy meals in Lyons, but it is only quite recently that scholars have paid serious attention to her/his presence on screen. Scholarly discussion is now of the highest quality and of interest to anyone concerned not only with the extent to which adult cultural conversations invoke the figure of the child, but also to those interested in exploring how film cultures can shift questions of agency and experience in relation to subjectivity. Childhood and Nation in World Cinema recognizes that the range of films and scholarship is now sufficiently extensive to invoke the world cinema mantra of pluri-vocal and pluri-central attention and interpretation. At the same time, the importance of the child in figuring ideas of nationhood is an undiminished tic in adult cultural and social consciousness. Either the child on film provokes claims on the nation or the nation claims the child. Given the waning star of national film studies, and the widely held and serious concerns over the status of the nation as a meaningful cultural unit, the point here is not to assume some extraordinary pre-social geopolitical empathy of child and political entity. Rather, the present collection observes how and why and whether the cinematic child is indeed aligned to concepts of modern nationhood, to concerns of the State, and to geo-political organizational themes and precepts.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501318594
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The child has existed in cinema since the Lumière Brothers filmed their babies having messy meals in Lyons, but it is only quite recently that scholars have paid serious attention to her/his presence on screen. Scholarly discussion is now of the highest quality and of interest to anyone concerned not only with the extent to which adult cultural conversations invoke the figure of the child, but also to those interested in exploring how film cultures can shift questions of agency and experience in relation to subjectivity. Childhood and Nation in World Cinema recognizes that the range of films and scholarship is now sufficiently extensive to invoke the world cinema mantra of pluri-vocal and pluri-central attention and interpretation. At the same time, the importance of the child in figuring ideas of nationhood is an undiminished tic in adult cultural and social consciousness. Either the child on film provokes claims on the nation or the nation claims the child. Given the waning star of national film studies, and the widely held and serious concerns over the status of the nation as a meaningful cultural unit, the point here is not to assume some extraordinary pre-social geopolitical empathy of child and political entity. Rather, the present collection observes how and why and whether the cinematic child is indeed aligned to concepts of modern nationhood, to concerns of the State, and to geo-political organizational themes and precepts.
Teaching World Cinema
Author: Kate Gamm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
IIs there such a thing as World Cinema? Is it simply cinema that isn't from Hollywood? Is British or European Cinema part of World Cinema, or is World Cinema something other than our own? These key questions are addressed in this guide, which provides teachers with a comprehensive and detailed approach to teaching World Cinema. * Investigates the concepts of World Cinema and National Cinema * Considers place of the auteur in World Cinema * Gives examples of World Cinema in their historical and cultural contexts * Discusses finance and distribution * Case studies look at Hong Kong, Scandinavia, and France, and the films C"hungking Express, Show me Love, "and "La Haine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
IIs there such a thing as World Cinema? Is it simply cinema that isn't from Hollywood? Is British or European Cinema part of World Cinema, or is World Cinema something other than our own? These key questions are addressed in this guide, which provides teachers with a comprehensive and detailed approach to teaching World Cinema. * Investigates the concepts of World Cinema and National Cinema * Considers place of the auteur in World Cinema * Gives examples of World Cinema in their historical and cultural contexts * Discusses finance and distribution * Case studies look at Hong Kong, Scandinavia, and France, and the films C"hungking Express, Show me Love, "and "La Haine
Contemporary World Cinema
Author: Shohini Chaudhuri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the cinemas of Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and South Asia, interpreting some of the recent developments as strategic responses to globalisation. Highlighting transnational and cross-cultural structures, influences and themes.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the cinemas of Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and South Asia, interpreting some of the recent developments as strategic responses to globalisation. Highlighting transnational and cross-cultural structures, influences and themes.
New Visions of the Child in Italian Cinema
Author: Danielle Hipkins
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783035306293
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book draws on a growing body of work in the history and theory of children on film and applies some of these new approaches to Italian cinema for the first time. In considering issues such as gender, the transnational, mourning and filmmaking itself the book maps out a revised understanding of the child in Italian film.
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783035306293
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book draws on a growing body of work in the history and theory of children on film and applies some of these new approaches to Italian cinema for the first time. In considering issues such as gender, the transnational, mourning and filmmaking itself the book maps out a revised understanding of the child in Italian film.
Loitering With Intent
Author: Peter O'Toole
Publisher: Hyperion Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The child: The actor's childhood in England.
Publisher: Hyperion Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The child: The actor's childhood in England.
Screening Motherhood in Contemporary World Cinema
Author: Asma Sayed
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781926452494
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Using a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, the contributing scholars to this collection analyze culturally specific and globally held attitudes about mothers and mothering, as represented in world cinema. Examining films from a range of countries including Afghanistan, India, Iran, Eastern Europe, Canada, and the United States, the various chapters contextualize the socio-cultural realities of motherhood as they are represented on screen, and explore the maternal figure as she has been glamorized and celebrated, while simultaneously subjected to public scrutiny. Collectively, this scholarly investigation provides insights into where women's struggles converge, while also highlighting the dramatically different realities of women around the globe.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781926452494
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Using a variety of critical and theoretical approaches, the contributing scholars to this collection analyze culturally specific and globally held attitudes about mothers and mothering, as represented in world cinema. Examining films from a range of countries including Afghanistan, India, Iran, Eastern Europe, Canada, and the United States, the various chapters contextualize the socio-cultural realities of motherhood as they are represented on screen, and explore the maternal figure as she has been glamorized and celebrated, while simultaneously subjected to public scrutiny. Collectively, this scholarly investigation provides insights into where women's struggles converge, while also highlighting the dramatically different realities of women around the globe.
War, Revolution and Remembrance in World Cinema
Author: Nancy J. Membrez
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476642079
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Two World Wars engulfed Europe, Asia and the United States, leaving indelible scars on the landscape and survivors. The trauma of civil wars in Spain (declared) and Latin America (tacit) spanned decades yet, contradictorily, bind parties together even today. Civil wars still haunt Africa where, in more recent years, ethnic cleansing has led to wholesale genocide. Drawing on the emerging field of Memory Studies, this book examines narrative and documentary films, made far from Hollywood, that address memory--both traumatic and nostalgic--surrounding these conflicts, despite attempts by special interests to erase or manipulate history.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476642079
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Two World Wars engulfed Europe, Asia and the United States, leaving indelible scars on the landscape and survivors. The trauma of civil wars in Spain (declared) and Latin America (tacit) spanned decades yet, contradictorily, bind parties together even today. Civil wars still haunt Africa where, in more recent years, ethnic cleansing has led to wholesale genocide. Drawing on the emerging field of Memory Studies, this book examines narrative and documentary films, made far from Hollywood, that address memory--both traumatic and nostalgic--surrounding these conflicts, despite attempts by special interests to erase or manipulate history.