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9780230231504

Contemporary Children's Literature and Film Engaging with Theory

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230231504

  • ISBN10:

    0230231500

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-09-15
  • Publisher: Red Globe Pr
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Summary

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for young people. Integrating perspectives from across feminism, ecocriticism, postcolonialism and poststructuralism, it demonstrates how these inform approaches to a range of contemporary literature and film.

Author Biography

Kerry Mallan is Professor of education-at-Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her co-edited-book, Youth Cultures': Texts, Images and Identities; is an I'RSCL Honour Book (2003). She is a co-author of New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature (2008), and her most recent"

Table of Contents

List of Figures
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
Notes on Contributors 
Index

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