Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema

Name: Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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By Donald, Stephanie Hemelryk

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The child has existed in cinema since the Lumière Brothers filmed their babies having messy meals in Lyons, but it is only quite recently that scholars have paid serious attention to her/his presence on screen. Scholarly discussion is now of the highest quality and of interest to anyone concerned not only with the extent to which adult cultural conversations invoke the figure of the child, but also to those interested in exploring how film cultures can shift questions of agency and experience in relation to subjectivity. Childhood and Nation in World Cinema recognizes that the range of films and scholarship is now sufficiently extensive to invoke the world cinema mantra of pluri-vocal and pluri-central attention and interpretation. At the same time, the importance of the child in figuring ideas of nationhood is an undiminished tic in adult cultural and social consciousness. Either the child on film provokes claims on the nation or the nation claims the child. Given the waning star of national film studies, and the widely held and serious concerns over the status of the nation as a meaningful cultural unit, the point here is not to assume some extraordinary pre-social geopolitical empathy of child and political entity. Rather, the present collection observes how and why and whether the cinematic child is indeed aligned to concepts of modern nationhood, to concerns of the State, and to geo-political organizational themes and precepts.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 290
Release Date:: 2017-02-09
Publication Date:: 2017-02-09
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1501318586
ISBN13:: 9781501318580
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 574 g
Height:: 15.7 cm
Width:: 23.5 cm
Thickness:: 2 cm

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