Childhood and nation in contemporary world cinema : borders and encounters / edited by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Emma Wilson and Sarah Wright

Published:: New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2017.
Copyright Date:: ©2017
Physical Description:: xv, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Donald, Stephanie, 1961-, Wilson, Emma, 1967-, and Wright, Sarah, 1969-

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Introduction : nation, film, child / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Emma Wilson and Sarah Wright -- Part 1. Home and away. 'A bath, a toilet and a field' : dreaming and deprivation in Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher / Vicky Lebeau -- Lost and found : children in indigenous Australian cinema / Greg Dolgopolov -- 'Away from girlhood' : Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard / Emma Wilson -- Part 2. Disappearance and removal. The lost children of Latvia : deportees and postmemory in Dzintra Geka's The children of Siberia / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Klāra Brūveris -- Among the nations : children as Czechs, Germans and Jews in post-1980 Czech cinematic representations of the Second World War / Jan Láníček -- Child, cinema, dictatorship : Ignacio Agüero's One hundred children waiting for a train / Sarah Wright -- Part 3. Education and serious games. Graphic tales : class, violence and South Korean childhood in Sang-ho Yeon's The king of pigs / Susan Danta -- Citizenship in the classroom : the politicisation of child subjects in Nicolas Philibert's To be and to have and Laurent Cantet's The class / Victoria Flanagan -- Education, destiny and national identity in Raúl Ruiz's Manuel on the island of wonders / Stefan Solomon -- An allegorical childhood : identity and coming of age in Terry Loane's Mickybo and me / Jennifer R. Beckett -- Part 4. Performance. Terrorism and trainers in a transnational remake : child labour and commodity culture in the Bollywood adaptation of new Iranian cinema's Children of heaven / Michael Lawrence -- The child as hyphen : Yamina Benguigui's Inch'allah dimanche / Hannah Kilduff -- Beiqing, kuqing and national sentimentality in Liu Junyi's Left-behind children / Zitong Qiu and Maria Elena Indelicato -- Children's toys, Argentine nationhood and blondness in Albertina Carri's Barbie gets sad too and Néstor F. and Martín C.'s Easy money / Jordana Blejmar.

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ISBN:

9781501318580 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1501318586 (hardback ; alk. paper)

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"The Leverhulme Trust."

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256), filmography (pages 257-263) and index.

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