Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood: Transforming Children's Literature into Film (Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture)

Synopsis

Machine Generated Contents Note: 1. Introduction: `palimpsestuous Intertextuality' And The Cultural Politics Of Childhood -- 2. The Imperial Child And The Romantic Child: Film Adaptation As Cultural Capital -- 3. The Dream Child And The Wild Child: Adapting The Carnivalesque -- 4. `flapping Ribbons Of Shaped Space-time': Genre Mixing, Intertextuality And Metafiction In Fiction And Film Adaptation -- 5. Angels, Monsters And Childhood: Liminality And The Quotidian Surreal -- 6. Invisible Children: Representing Childhood Across Cultures -- 7. Epilogue. Robyn Mccallum. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.