Radical Children's Film and Television

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3605-9 (ISBN)

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An exploration of radical children’s film and television from around the world.

There is a long history of radical children’s film and television which subverts political orthodoxies and challenges aesthetic conventions, often beneath a cloak of innocence. However, these rich traditions of radical screen content for children have received remarkably little attention. This volume redresses the balance. With contributions from leading authorities in the field and reference to both iconic and neglected media from around the world, this book sheds light on film and television for children that seeks to make a critical intervention in culture and society. It also investigates the subversive uses of children’s media culture by individuals, communities of fandom, political groups, and creative practitioners. In so doing, it represents a major addition to existing scholarship in the field of children’s film and television.

Noel Brown is Associate Professor in Film at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He has written several books on aspects of children’s film, family entertainment and animation, including Contemporary Hollywood Animation (2021), The Children’s Film (2017), British Children’s Cinema (2016) and The Hollywood Family Film (2012). He is also editor of The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Film (2022), and series editor of ‘Children’s Film and Television’ for Edinburgh University Press.

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction - Noel Brown

Part I: Questions of Theory and Practice

1. Is a Radical Children’s Film and Television Possible? - Noel Brown

2. What is Radical Television for Children? A Transnational and Historical Exploration from Left to Right - Helle Strandgaard Jensen

3. Revolt in a Boarding School: Aesthetic and Political Radicalism in the French Children’s Film Zéro de conduite (Zero for Conduct) by Jean Vigo - Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

4. The Problem of Audience: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T., Dr. Seuss and the Children’s Film - Adrian Schober

5. What do you Mean, ‘Horrible’? The Radicalism of Horrible Histories - Máire Messenger Davies

Part II: Subversive Social Commentary

6. Dick and Dom in da Place/Space to Be: ‘Bogies’ as Situationist-Carnival - Richard Berger and Ashley Woodfall

7. Children’s Films and Cosmology - Ian Wojcik-Andrews

8. Worlds Apart: Growing Pains and Radical Politics in Xhanfise Keko’s Pas Gjurmëve - Jonida Gashi

9. ‘No, there will never be a dictatorship again in Argentina’: Remembering the Dictatorship (1976–1983) and Empowering the Child Citizen in Argentinian Animation - Vladimir Cotal San Martin and Georgia Aitaki

Part III: Manifestos for Change

10. Radical Rodents and Suffering Hounds in Don Bluth’s The Secret of NIMH and Martin Rosen’s The Plague Dogs - Helena Bacon and Adam Whybray

11. ‘How Far Would You Go?’: Conceptualising Extremist Youth Activism in International Screen Adaptations of The Third Wave Social Experiment - Carla Plieth

12. (Re)orientations for Living with Toxicity in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - Teresa Humphrey and Cory Jobb

Part IV: Radical Experiments

13. Breaking Taboos: Swedish Children’s TV in the Radical Era of the 1970s - Malena Janson

14. Welshness, Class and Sexuality: A Thematic Reading of The Owl Service (1970) - Robert Shail

15. Animated Traumas: The Films of Anita Killi - Ole Christoffer Haga

16. Assemblages of Wonder and Ecologies of Sound in Bluey and Summer Camp Island - Penni Russon

Part V: Audiences, Participation and Appropriation

17. Do Babies and Toddlers Need Radical Films and TV? - Cary Bazalgette

18. A Message Movie (Un)Suitable for Children? Public Debates About the Politics and Audiences of Avatar (2009) - Peter Krämer

19. From Courage the Cowardly Dog to the Creepypasta: Formal Destabilisation and Direct Address in Children’s Horror Television - Bence Bardos

20. F is for Friends, G is for Gay: Bert, Ernie, and the Radical Potential of Childhood’s Queer Friendships - Ryan Bunch

21. Children’s Film Festivals as Potential Spaces for Radical Content/Consumption - Barbora Kyas and Noel Brown

Afterword - Kimberley Reynolds

Erscheinungsdatum	07.06.2025
Reihe/Serie	Children’s Film and Television
Zusatzinfo	33 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-3995-3605-2 / 1399536052
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-3605-9 / 9781399536059
Zustand	Neuware