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The Child in Film

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The Child in Film

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Ghastly and ghostly children, 'dirty little white girls', the child as witness and as victim, have always played an important part in the history of cinema, as have child performers themselves. In exploring the disruptive power of the child in films made for an adult audience across popular films, including "Taxi Driver" and Japanese horror, and 'art-house' productions like "Mirror" and "Pan's Labyrinth", Karen Lury investigates why the figure of the child has such a significant impact on the visual aspects and storytelling potential of cinema.Lury's main argument is that the child as a liminal yet powerful agent has allowed filmmakers to play adventurously with cinema's formal conventions - with far-reaching consequences. In particular, she reveals how a child's relationship to time allows it to disturb and question conventional master-narratives. She explores too the investment in the child actor and expression of child sexuality, as well as how confining and conservative existing assumptions can be in terms of commonly held beliefs as to who children 'really are'.

Author Biography:

Karen Lury is Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow. She is the author of 'British Youth Television: Cynicism and Enchantment' (2001) and 'Interpreting Television' (2005).
Release date Australia
March 30th, 2010
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Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Edition
New Ed.
Illustrations
25 integrated bw illustrations
Pages
240
ISBN-13
9781845119683
Product ID
3945646

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