Screen adaptations and the politics of childhood: transforming children's literature into film

This title features a cutting edge approach to the study of film adaptations of literature for children and young people, and the narratives about childhood those adaptations enact.

Historically, film media has always had a partiality for the adaptation of 'classic' literary texts for children.

As economic and cultural commodities, McCallum points out how such screen adaptations play a crucial role in the cultural reproduction and transformation of childhood and youth, and indeed are a rich resource for the examination of changing cultural values and ideologies, particularly around contested narratives of childhood.

The chapters examine various representations of childhood: as shifting states of innocence and wildness, liminality, marginalisation and invisibility.