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Cinema's Missing Children

Author: Emma Wilson

Publisher: Wallflower Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781903364505

Photographs of missing children are some of the most haunting images of contemporary Western society. Wilson contends that the loss of a child is perceived as a limit-experience in contemporary cinema, where filmmakers attempt to transform their means of representation as a response to acute pain and horror. She explores the representation of missing and endangered children in a number of the key films of the last decade, including Kieslowski's Three Colours: Blue, Atom Egoyan's Exotica, Todd Solondz's Happiness, Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady, Lars von Trier's The Kingdom, and Almodovar's All About My Mother.

Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema

Author: Debbie C. Olson

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012-05-18

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0739170260

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Children have been a part of the cinematic landscape since the silent film era, yet children are rarely a part of the theoretical landscape of film analysis. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema, edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill, seeks to remedy that oversight. Throughout the over one-hundred year history of cinema, the image of the child has been inextricably bound to filmic storytelling and has been equally bound to notions of romantic innocence and purity. This collection reveals, however, that there is a body of work that provides a counter note of darkness to the traditional portraits of sweetness and light. Particularly since the mid-twentieth century, there are a growing number of cinematic works that depict childhood has as a site of knowingness, despair, sexuality, death, and madness. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema challenges notions of the innocent child through an exploration of the dark side of childhood in contemporary cinema. The contributors to this multidisciplinary study offer a global perspective that explores the multiple conditions of marginalized childhood as cinematically imagined within political, geographical, sociological, and cultural contexts.

For Kids of All Ages

Author: Peter Keough

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-11-27

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1538128594

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In For Kids of All Ages,members of the National Society of Film Critics celebrate the wonder of childhood in cinema. In this volume, original essays commissioned especially for this collection stand alongside classic reviews from prominent film critics like Jay Carr and Roger Ebert. Each of the ten sections in this collection takes on a particular aspect of children’s cinema, from animated features to adaptations of beloved novels. The films discussed here range from the early 1890s to the present. The contributors draw on personal connections that make their insights more trenchant and compelling. The essays and reviews in For Kids of All Ages are not just a list of recommendations—though plenty are included—but an illuminating, often personal study of children’s movies, children in movies, and the childish wonder that is the essence of film. Contributors include John Anderson, Sheila Benson, Jay Carr, Justin Chang, Godfrey Cheshire, Morris Dickstein, Roger Ebert, David Fear, Robert Horton, J. R. Jones, Peter Keough, Andy Klein, Nathan Lee, Emanuel Levy, Gerald Peary, Mary Pols, Peter Rainer, Carrie Rickey, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Michael Sragow, David Sterritt, Charles Taylor, Peter Travers, Kenneth Turan, James Verniere, Michael Wilmington, and Stephanie Zacharek.

The Children's Book of the Movies

Author: DK Publishing, Inc

Publisher: DK Children

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781465416629

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Provides information about movies, chronicling their history from the early moving pictures to today; detailing how stunts and screen writing are done; and profiling famous actors, producers, and directors.

The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema

Author: Andrew Scahill

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-09-30

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1137481323

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The monstrous child is the allegorical queer child in various formations of horror cinema: the child with a secret, the child 'possessed' by Otherness, the changeling child, the terrible gang. This book explores the possibilities of 'not growing up' as a model for a queer praxis that confronts the notion of heternormative maturity.

Miss Nelson is Missing!

Author: Harry Allard

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780395401460

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Suggests activities to be used at home to accompany the reading of Miss Nelson is missing by Harry Allard in the classroom.

The Missing Movie (Geronimo Stilton #73)

Author: Geronimo Stilton

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 133854697X

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When you're with Geronimo Stilton, it's always a fabumouse adventure! Mouse Island is having its first ever film festival! Everyone is waiting for Mousin Scorsese's new movie. But as soon as the lights go out, the movie goes missing! Can Geronimo catch the thief?

The child in Spanish cinema

Author: Sarah Wright

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2015-11-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1526103206

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In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child comes to represent ‘prosthetic memory’. The central theme of the child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of the self to the past, and to cinema. Concentrating on films from the 1950s to the present day, the book explores religious films, musicals, ‘art-house horror’, science-fiction, social realism and fantasy. It includes reference to Erice’s The Spirit of The Beehive, del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, Mañas’s El Bola and the Marisol films. The book also draws on a century of filmmaking in Spain and intersects with recent revelations concerning the horrors of the Spanish past. The child is a potent motif for the loss of historical memory and for its recuperation through cinema. This book is suitable for scholars and undergraduates working in the areas of Spanish cinema, Spanish cultural studies and cinema studies.