The Child in Cinema

The Child in Cinema
Karen Lury
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22 Sep 2022 UK
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9781844575121
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This book brings together a host of internationally recognised scholars to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the representation of the child in cinema. Individual chapters examine how children appear across a broad range of films, including Badlands (1973), Ratcatcher (1999),Boyhood (2014), My Neighbour Totoro (1988), and Howl' s Moving Castle (2004). They also consider the depiction of children in non-fiction and non-theatrical films, including the documentaries Etre et Avoir (2002) and Capturing the Friedmans (2003), art installations and public information films. Through a close analysis of these films, contributors examine the spaces and places children inhabit and imagine; a concern for children' s rights and agency; the affective power of the child as a locus for memory and history; and the complexity and ambiguity of the child figure itself. The essays also argue the global reach of cinema featuring children, including analyses of films from the former Yugoslavia, Brazil and India, as well as exploring the labour of the child both in front of and behind the camera as actors and filmmakers. In doing so, the book provides an in-depth look into the nature of child performance on screen, across a diverse range of cinemas and film-making practices.
Karen Lury is Professor of Film and Television Studies in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has published widely on film and television, on children' s media, British cinema and television aesthetics, including the monographs British Youth Television: cynicism and enchantment (2001), Interpreting Television (Bloomsbury, 2005) and The Child in Film (2010). She has been an editor of the international film and television studies journal, Screen, for over 15 years.
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ISBN-13: 9781844575121
Published: 22 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: BFI Publishing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 240

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