Turning the Page
Children's Literature in Performance and the Media
Published on 8. December 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
298 pages
978-3-03910-255-6 (ISBN)
Description
Since the nineteenth century, children's literature has been adapted for both the stage and the screen. As the twentieth century progressed, children's books provided the material for an increasing range of new media, from radio to computer games, from television to cinema blockbuster. Although such adaptations are now recognised as a significant part of the culture of childhood and popular culture in general, little has been written about the range of products and experiences that they generate. This book brings together writers whose work offers contrasting perspectives on the process of adaptation and the varying transformations - social, historical and ideological - that take place when a text moves from the page to another medium. Linking all these contributions is an interest in the changing definition of children's literature and its target audience within an increasingly media-rich society.
More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
412 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-03910-255-6 (9783039102556)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
The Editors: Fiona M. Collins is the coordinator of English in Education at Roehampton University. She lectures on a range of children's literature courses, both undergraduate and post-graduate. She co-edited Historical Fiction for Children: Capturing the Past and co-authored Reading Voices: Young People Discuss Their Reading Choices.
Jeremy Ridgman is Principal Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Roehampton University. He has published on various aspects of television drama and television history and is the editor of Boxed Sets: Television Representations of Theatre.
Content
Contents: Fiona M. Collins/Jeremy Ridgman: Introduction - Michael Newton: 'Til I'm Grown: Reading Children's Films; Reading Walt Disney's
The Jungle Book
- Jeremy Ridgman: From River Bank to South Bank:
The Wind in the Willows
and the Staging of National Identity - Margaret Mackey: Inhabiting
Anne'
s World: The Performance of a Story Space - Máire Messenger Davies:
The Secret Garden
in Film and Television - Mary Cadogan: Multimedia
William
- Gillian Lathey: 'What a funny name!': Cultural Transition in Versions of Erich Kästner's
Emil and the Detectives
- Anthea Bell:
Asterix
on Screen - Fiona M. Collins: Picture Books into Animation: The Art of Movement - Nadia Crandall: The Fairy Tale in the 21st Century:
Shrek
as Anticipatory Illumination or Coercive Ideology - Kimberley Reynolds:
His Dark Materials
in Performance: Finding a Balance between Heritage and Mass Media - Lisa Sainsbury: Rousseau's Raft: The Remediation of Narrative in Romain Victor-Pujebet's CD-ROM Version of
Robinson Crusoe
- Andrew Burn: Multi-text Magic: Harry Potter in Book, Film and Videogame - Kerry Mallan: 'Just a Boy in a Dress': Performing Gender in Male-to-Female Cross-dressing Narratives - Susanne Greenhalgh: The Eye of Childhood: Shakespeare, Performance and the Child Subject.