Loading
Log In

Results

Sort By:  1-10 of 24 (3 pages)
Results per page:
         

The Child as Hyphen: Yamina Benguigui’s Inch’allah Dimanche

Hannah Kilduff

Hannah Kilduff

Search for publications

Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema : Borders and Encounters

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...In 1974, in the wake of the oil crisis of the preceding year and as a consequence of the resulting economic downturn, France’s newly elected president, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, changed French immigration policy. The waves of post-war North...

Graphic Tales: Class, Violence and South Korean Childhood in Sang-Ho Yeon’s The King of Pigs

Susan Danta

Susan Danta

Search for publications

Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema : Borders and Encounters

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...We seem to be looking at a highly stylized panel from a comic book. There is no movement other than the panning of the camera directing our eye across its harsh graphic lines. The stillness and silence are unnerving. What we see...

Imperial Kinship: The Royal Tenenbaums

Warren Buckland

Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions (2012), Directed by Steven Spielberg (2006), and The Cognitive Semiotics of Film (2000). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Search for publications

Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld : A Semiotic Analysis

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Book chapter

...The film’s title, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), appears in the storyworld: it is on the cover of a book that is part of the film’s diegesis, rather than where it is conventionally found, on what Etienne Souriau (1951) called the filmophanic...

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

Michael Lawrence

Search for publications

Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema : Borders and Encounters

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...The child’s significance for the transnational distribution and reception of certain kinds of cinema – the presence of so many films on the international festival and art house circuits that feature children in prominent roles – would...

An Allegorical Childhood: Identity and Coming of Age in Terry Loane’s Mickybo and Me

Jennifer R. Beckett

Jennifer R. Beckett

Search for publications

Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema : Borders and Encounters

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...Eduardo Mendieta, ‘Writings for a Liberation Psychology’, Cross Currents 47, no. 1 (1997): 134.Children may live the psychosocial trauma of war for a moment, a month, a year, but they suffer it for the duration of their lives; they have...

Citizenship in the Classroom: The Politicization of Child Subjects in Nicolas Philibert’s To Be and To Have and Laurent Cantet’s The Class

Victoria Flanagan

Victoria Flanagan

Search for publications

Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema : Borders and Encounters

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...The cultural institution of the school is often presumed to function as an entry point for civic engagement with the nation state. The etymological origin of the term ‘nation’ is, in fact, directly associated with childhood, as it invokes...

Education, Destiny and National Identity in Raúl Ruiz’s Manuel on the Island of Wonders

Stefan Solomon

Stefan Solomon

Search for publications

Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema : Borders and Encounters

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...Raúl Ruiz was born in 1941 in the coastal city of Puerto Montt in southern Chile. Before turning to film-making, he had managed to write over a hundred stage plays and worked on a number of Mexican telenovelas. His first film, Tres tristes...

‘Away from Girlhood’: Catherine Breillat’s Bluebeard

Emma Wilson

Emma Wilson is Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Search for publications

Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema : Borders and Encounters

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...One In her retelling of the Bluebeard story, The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter’s girl heroine narrates: I remember how, that night, I lay awake in the wagon-lit in a tender, delicious ecstasy of excitement, my burning cheek pressed...

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

Jordana Blejmar

Search for publications

Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema : Borders and Encounters

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...This chapter analyses two stop-motion short films – Barbie Gets Sad Too and Easy Money – that are ‘acted’ almost exclusively by toys, objects taken back from the world of childhood. Through that gesture the films explore the discourses...

Beiqing, Kuqing and National Sentimentality in Liu Junyi’s Left-behind Children

Zitong Qiu

Zitong Qiu

Search for publications
and

Maria Elena Indelicato

Maria Elena Indelicato

Search for publications

Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema : Borders and Encounters

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...Over the past decades, rapid economic growth has led to extensive internal rural-to-urban migration in China. As a consequence of this radical social transformation, the children of migrants are often left under the care of relatives...