The Child in World Cinema

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Edited by Debbie Olson

Type

Essays

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

children, world cinema, representation

Publishing date

2018

Publisher

Lexington Books

Collection

Children and Youth in Popular Culture

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 514 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches (16 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4985-6380-2

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
Debbie Olson is assistant professor of English at Missouri Valley College.

Press Reviews:
A valuable text for readers interested in cinematic representations of childhood. Comprehensive, wide-ranging and truly international in scope, it successfully moves beyond the geopolitical parochialism that has characterized much of the prior scholarship in this area. While encompassing films both iconic and relatively unknown in Western criticism, the basic question of how the screen image of childhood reflects dominant social and cultural practices remains central throughout the book. -- Noel Brown, author of "The Children's Film: Genre, Nation and Narrative"

Debbie Olson’s extensive twenty-two chapter collection The Child in World Cinema assembles a range of international scholars to examine representations of children and childhood across the globe. The work importantly extends study on Western media about children and youth to encompass the child image in non-Western cinemas, these spanning from South America, through India to New Zealand. Moving away from Western perceptions of childhood, the broad coverage of this volume not only addresses on-screen culture-specific issues in its subjects of study, including, for example, the one-child policy in China and child abandonment in Japan, but also historical traumas that have shaped portrayals of childhood. The insightful and detailed analyses comprising this anthology make a comprehensive, thorough and significant contribution to international scholarship on children and childhood in cinema and will be invaluable to scholars of child and youth representation, Third World Cinemas, and Childhood Studies. -- Fran Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhamption

There is so much to praise in this book with each context bringing something new to the overall view of the child in world cinema.... Overall, this is a multi-layered and variegated volume that impresses in its range and diversity. If anyone is in any doubt as to the richness and energy of the field of the child in world cinema, they should read this book. It will be of interest to scholars and students working in film studies and child studies more generally.
― Children & Society

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