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Childhood and Cinema (Locations)

Childhood and Cinema (Locations)

From Lolita to The Sixth Sense, the figure of the child in cinematic works has been a contested site of symbolism and controversy. Childhood and Cinema examines how the child in film has ultimately been used to embody the anxieties and aspirations of modern life.
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Vicky Lebeau investigates how films use children to probe such themes as sexuality, death, imagination, the terrors of childhood, and hope. The book ranges over the whole history of Western cinema, from the LumiÃ¨re brothersâ€™ 1895 Feeding the Baby to Walt Disneyâ€™s animation classics to Truffautâ€™s Lâ€™enfant sauvage and recent works such as Capturing the Friedmans and Kids. The figure of the child in film, Lebeau argues, is fundamentally ambivalentâ€”always hovering on the edge between hope and despair, vulnerability and violence, or pleasure and traumaâ€”and it ultimately offers a unique way of thinking about the significance of cinema itself.
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By turns engaging, thought-provoking, and informative, Childhood and the Cinema challenges us to reconsider the child figure as a conduit for critical reflection on what it means to be human.
Country USA
Brand Reaktion Books
Manufacturer Reaktion Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 100ill.
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781861893529
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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