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Title Children's film in the digital age : essays on audience, adaptation and consumer culture / edited by Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler.

Publication Info. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  791.43083 C536C    Check Shelf
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Summary "This collection of new essays explores how children's film can be re-examined alongside recent developments in their production. These analyses consider the effect of multimedia strategies on the child audience, and the opportunities for participation and their pedagogical implications. The essays also address how childhood is embedded within films and linked to various consumer contexts"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Childhood, Adults and Films for Dual Audiences. No Place like Home: Circumscribing Fantasy in Children's Film / Julian Cornell -- Songs for the Older Set: Music and Multiple Demographics in Shrek, Madagascar and Happy Feet / Stan Beeler -- The Fantastic Childhood Imagination Through an Adult Lens: A Todorovian Approach to Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland / Heather Rolufs -- Asterix & Obelix vs. Hollywood: A Pan-European Film Franchise for the "Family" Audience / Noel Brown -- Film Adaptation and Transmedia Forms. Re-Mixing The Chronicles of Narnia: The Re-Imagining of Lucy Pevensie Through Film Franchise Texts and Digital Fan Cultures / Naomi Hamer -- An Evolutionary Journey: Pokémon, Mythic Quests and the Culture of Challenge / Lincoln Geraghty -- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Film Adaptation and Media Convergence for Children / Karin Beeler -- Nurturing Young Cinephiles: Martin Scorsese's Hugo / Dan North -- Cultural and Consumer Contexts for Children Russian Animated Films and Nationalism of the New Millennium: The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes / Michel Bouchard and Tatiana Podyakova -- Cosmopolitan Endurance: Migrant Children and Film Spectatorship / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald -- Dubashi: Indian Film, Cross-Cultural Communication and Screenings for Children / Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai -- Branding Blackness: Disney's Commodification of Black Culture in Song of the South and The Princess and the Frog / Lydia E. Ferguson -- The Commodification of Ms. Penny Proud: Consumer Culture in Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids and Disney's The Proud Family / Debbie Olson.
Subject Children's films -- History and criticism.
Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
Children in motion pictures.
Added Author Beeler, Karin E. (Karin Elizabeth), 1963- editor.
Beeler, Stanley W., editor.
ISBN 9780786475964 (softcover: alkaline paper)
078647596X (softcover: alkaline paper)
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