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This book features a cutting edge approach to the study of film adaptations of literature for children and young people, and the narratives about childhood those adaptations enact. Historically, film media has always had a partiality for the adaptation of ‘classic’ literary texts for children. As economic and cultural commodities, McCallum points out how such screen adaptations play a crucial role in the cultural reproduction and transformation of childhood and youth, and indeed are a rich resource for the examination of changing cultural values and ideologies, particularly around contested narratives of childhood. The chapters examine various representations of childhood: as shifting states of innocence and wildness, liminality, marginalisation and invisibility. The book focuses on a range of literary and film genres, from ‘classic’ texts, to experimental, carnivalesque, magical realist, and cross-cultural texts. .

Literature. --- Film genres. --- Children's literature. --- Childhood. --- Adolescence. --- Social groups. --- Children's Literature. --- Movie and TV Adaptations. --- Childhood, Adolescence and Society. --- Genre. --- Children's literature --- Children in motion pictures. --- Childhood in motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures. --- Adaptation Studies. --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Juvenile literature --- Literature --- Plots, themes, etc. --- History and criticism --- Teen-age --- Teenagers --- Puberty --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- Development

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This book features a cutting edge approach to the study of film adaptations of literature for children and young people, and the narratives about childhood those adaptations enact. Historically, film media has always had a partiality for the adaptation of 'classic' literary texts for children. As economic and cultural commodities, McCallum points out how such screen adaptations play a crucial role in the cultural reproduction and transformation of childhood and youth, and indeed are a rich resource for the examination of changing cultural values and ideologies, particularly around contested narratives of childhood. The chapters examine various representations of childhood: as shifting states of innocence and wildness, liminality, marginalisation and invisibility. The book focuses on a range of literary and film genres, from 'classic' texts, to experimental, carnivalesque, magical realist, and cross-cultural texts. .

Developmental psychology --- Age group sociology --- Film --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- Sociology of literature --- literaire adaptatie --- adolescenten --- film --- kinderen --- literatuur --- jeugdliteratuur --- Children's literature. --- Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Sociology. --- Social groups. --- Film genres. --- Children's Literature. --- Adaptation Studies. --- Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. --- Genre Studies.

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What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural context and for a different audience? This first-of-its-kind study discusses Bible stories, classical myths, heroic legends, Arthurian romances, Robin Hood lore, folk tales, 'oriental' tales, and other stories derived from European cultures. One chapter is devoted to various retellings of classics, from Shakespeare to ""Wind in the Willows."" The authors offer a general theory of what motivates the retelling of stories, and how stories express the aspirations of a society. An important function of stories is to introduce children to a cultural heritage, and to transmit a body of shared allusions and experiences that expresses a society's central values and assumptions.However, the cultural heritage may be modified through a pervasive tendency of retellings to produce socially conservative outcomes because of ethnocentric, androcentric and class-based assumptions in the source stories that persist into retellings.Therefore, some stories, such as classical myths, are particularly resistant to feminist reinterpretations, for example, while other types, such as folktales, are more malleable.In examining such possibilities, the book evaluates the processes of interpretation apparent in retellings.

Fiction --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- literaire canon --- mythologie (genre) --- jeugdliteratuur --- Children --- Children's literature --- Books and reading. --- History and criticism. --- 82-93 --- 82-93 Kinderliteratuur. Jeugdliteratuur --- Kinderliteratuur. Jeugdliteratuur --- Books and reading for children --- Reading interests of children --- History and criticism --- Books and reading --- -Children's literature --- -82-93 --- Juvenile literature --- Literature --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- literaire adaptatie --- -Books and reading