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A companion to Soviet children's literature and film
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ISBN: 9004414398 9004401482 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Bril,

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A Companion to Soviet Children’s Literature and Film offers a comprehensive and innovative analysis of Soviet literary and cinematic production for children. Its contributors contextualize and reevaluate Soviet children’s books, films, and animation and explore their contemporary re-appropriation by the Russian government, cultural practitioners, and educators. Celebrating the centennial of Soviet children’s literature and film, the Companion reviews the rich and dramatic history of the canon. It also provides an insight into the close ties between Soviet children’s culture and Avant-Garde aesthetics, investigates early pedagogical experiments of the Soviet state, documents the importance of translation in children’s literature of the 1920-80s, and traces the evolution of heroic, fantastic, historical, and absurdist Soviet narratives for children.


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Video critical : children, the environment and media power
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ISBN: 1860205135 9781860205132 Year: 1996 Publisher: Luton: University of Luton. John Libbey Media,


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The children's film foundation
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ISBN: 1838711597 1844578607 9781844578597 1844578593 9781844578603 9781844578580 1844578585 1838718664 9781838718664 9781838711597 Year: 2016 Publisher: London

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"From the 1950s to the 1980s the Children's Film Foundation made films for Saturday morning cinema clubs across the UK - entertaining and educating generations of British children. This first history of this much-loved organisation provides an overview of the CFF's films, interviews with key backstage personnel, and memories of audience members."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

From Mouse to Mermaid : the politics of film, gender and culture
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ISBN: 0253329051 0253209781 9780253209788 9780253329059 1282078860 9786612078866 0585026882 9780585026886 9780253116161 0253116163 9781282078864 Year: 1995 Publisher: Bloomington (IN) : Indiana University Press,

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From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children's classics as well as the Disney affiliates' more recent attempts to capture adult audiences, the contributors respond to the Disney film legacy from feminist, marxist, poststructuralist, and cultural studies perspectives. The volume contemplates Disney's duality as an American icon and as an industry of cultural production, created in and through fifty years of filmmaking. The contributors treat a range of topics at issue in contemporary cultural studies: the performance of gender, race, and class; the engendered images of science, nature, technology, family, and business. The compilation of voices in From Mouse to Mermaid creates a persuasive cultural critique of Disney's ideology. The contributors are Bryan Attebery, Elizabeth Bell, Claudia Card, Chris Cuomo, Ramona Fernandez, Henry A. Giroux, Robert Haas, Lynda Haas, Susan Jeffords, N. Soyini Madison, Susan Miller, Patrick Murphy, David Payne, Greg Rode, Laura Sells, and Jack Zipes.


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British children's cinema : from The thief of Bagdad to Wallace and Gromit
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ISBN: 9781786721013 1786721015 1786731010 9781786731012 9781784534004 1784534005 9781786731012 1350985589 Year: 2017 Publisher: London : I.B. Tauris,

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"British children's films have played a part in the childhoods of generations of young people around the world for over a century. Until now, however, their cherished status has remained largely unexplored. In this book, Noel Brown relates the history of children's cinema in Britain from the early years of commercial cinema to the present day, to reveal the reasons behind its acclaim in international popular culture. Drawing on multiple sources, Brown provides in-depth analysis of a range of iconic films, including The Railway Children, The Thief of Bagdad, Bugsy Malone, the Harry Potter films, Mary Poppins, Nanny McPhee, Paddington, Oliver!, and Aardman's Wallace and Gromit series. Futhermore, he investigates industrial and commercial contexts, such as the role of the Children's Film Foundation; and includes revealing insights on changing social and cultural norms, such as the once-sacred tradition of Saturday morning cinema. Brown challenges common prejudices that children's films are inherently shallow or simplistic, revealing the often complex strategies that underpin their enduring appeal to audiences of all ages and backgrounds. In addition, he shows how the films allow a privileged access to historic cultures and the nation's political past. In doing so, Brown firmly establishes children's cinema as an important genre not only for students and scholars of film studies but also for those interested in socio-cultural history, the production and reception of popular entertainment and anyone looking for entertainment, escapism and nostalgia."


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The psychosocial implications of Disney movies
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ISBN: 3038978493 3038978485 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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In this volume of 15 articles, contributors from a wide range of disciplines present their analyses of Disney movies and Disney music, which are mainstays of popular culture. The power of the Disney brand has heightened the need for academics to question whether Disney’s films and music function as a tool of the Western elite that shapes the views of those less empowered. Given its global reach, how the Walt Disney Company handles the role of race, gender, and sexuality in social structural inequality merits serious reflection according to a number of the articles in the volume. On the other hand, other authors argue that Disney productions can help individuals cope with difficult situations or embrace progressive thinking. The different approaches to the assessment of Disney films as cultural artifacts also vary according to the theoretical perspectives guiding the interpretation of both overt and latent symbolic meaning in the movies. The authors of the 15 articles encourage readers to engage with the material, showcasing a variety of views about the good, the bad, and the best way forward.

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Zeus --- snowmen --- adaptation --- family jewels --- motherhood --- feminist political economy of media --- Lilo &amp --- music --- children --- heroism --- princess --- transnational media --- feminist film criticism --- EPCOT --- stereotyping --- applause --- family function --- queer --- gender --- entertainment --- masculinity --- fireworks --- diversity --- world --- coping mechanisms --- appropriation --- selflessness --- snowflake --- Megara --- Pixar --- Walter Benjamin --- cultivation --- gender nonconformity --- Disney --- Elsa --- enchantment --- witches --- empowered mothering --- cultural studies --- bullroarer --- postfeminism --- storms --- imperialism --- magic --- matrix of domination --- sexuality --- beauty --- children’s media --- fertility --- boobs and boyfriends --- girls --- parthenogenesis --- Polynesia --- coloniality --- commodification --- Marshmallow --- content coding analysis --- colonialism --- Moana --- Let it Go --- non-binary --- Africana --- family roles --- hypermasculinity --- media criticism --- cultures --- political economy of film --- mean girls --- death --- engagement ring --- Olaf --- intersectionality --- Hercules --- sounds --- Kristoff --- Dumbo --- hegemony --- park --- alternative royals --- prince --- girl cartoon --- pink elephants --- Stitch --- gender stereotypes --- standing ovation --- gender roles --- wedding toast --- diamond --- content analysis --- family structure --- feminism --- family --- Children's films --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Walt Disney Company --- Influence. --- Juvenile films --- Motion pictures for children --- Moving-pictures for children --- Video recordings for children --- Motion pictures --- Disney Studio --- 迪斯尼公司 --- Mei guo di shi ni gong si --- 美國迪士尼公司 --- Walt Disney Productions --- 21st Century Fox (Firm)

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