Contemporary Children's Literature and Film: Engaging with Theory

ISBN-13: 9780230231498 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

Kerry Mallan; Clare Bradford

Opis

Bringing together the voices of leading and emerging scholars, this book provides an innovative and accessible guide to using theory to study children's literature and film. Integrating key theoretical approaches and thinkers from across feminism, ecocriticism, postcolonialism and poststructuralism, the book shows how these can be used as tools to analyse a range of contemporary children's literature and film texts. The book will be at the cutting-edge of scholarship, combining new approaches to not only locate children's texts within changing social, cultural and political contexts, but also to help navigate a changing 'post-theory' era.

Spis treści

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Bringing Back Theory; K.Mallan & C.Bradford Schemas and Scripts: Cognitive Instruments and the Representation of Cultural Diversity in Children's Literature; J.Stephens Journeying Subjects: Spatiality and Identity in Children's Texts; C.Bradford & R.Baccolini Local and Global: Cultural Globalisation, Consumerism and Children's Fiction; E.Bullen & K.Mallan Monstrous Women: Gothic Misogyny in Monster House; M.Takolander Splitting the Difference: Pleasure, Desire and Intersubjectivity in Children's Literature and Film; C.Wilkie-Stubbs Children as Ecocitizens: Ecocriticism and Environmental Texts; G.Massey & C.Bradford From 'Wizard' to 'Wicked': Adaptation Theory and Young Adult Fiction; D.Buchbinder All That Matters: Technoscience, Critical Theory and Children's Fiction; K.Mallan Index.

O autorze

KERRY MALLAN is Professor in Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her co-edited book Youth Cultures: Texts, Images and Identities is an IRSCL Honour Book (2003). She is a co-author of New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature (2008). Her most recent book is Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction (2009).

CLARE BRADFORD is Professor of Literature at Deakin University, Australia. Her 2001 book, Reading Race, won both the ChLA Book Award and the IRSCL Award. She is a co-author of New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature (2008). Her most recent book is Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children's Literature (2007).