"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"--
Scholars of screen media and of childhood explore how new technologies and viewing platforms have changed scholarly approaches to interpreting films produced for and about children. They cover childhood, adults, and films for dual audiences; film adaptation and transmedia forms; and cultural and consumer contexts for children. Among their topics are a Todorovian approach to Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, the reimagination of Lucy Pevensie through film franchise texts and digital fan cultures, nurturing young cinephiles with Martin Scorsese's Hugo, and Disney's commodification of Black culture in Song of the South and The Princess and the Frog. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)