Childhood in animation : navigating a secret world / by Jane Batkin.
| Author/creator | Batkin, Jane author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xi, 179 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
| Supplemental Content | Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge research in cultural and media studies Routledge research in cultural and media studies. ^A403922 |
| Contents | Childhood, through a looking glass -- Separation : all the lost boys -- Fantasy and the quest -- Horror and the child : agency, fear and secret spaces -- The child's gaze : archives, audience and the new media makers -- 21st century kids : voice, violence and Disney and Pixar -- Locating the child : the political, global and local -- Satire and the weaponised child. |
| Abstract | "Childhood in Animation - Navigating a Secret World explores how children are viewed in cinema and television and examines the screen spaces that they occupy. The image of the child is often a site of conflict, one that has been captured, preserved and recollected on screen; but what do these representations tell us about the animated child and how it compares to its live action counterpart? Is childhood simply a metaphor for innocence, or something far more complex that embraces agency, performance and othering? Childhood in Animation focuses on key child characters and how they are represented within fantasy, separation, horror, politics and satire, as well as viewing childhood itself through a philosophical, sociological, and global lens. Ultimately, this book navigates that rabbit hole to reveal the secret space of childhood, where anything and everything is possible. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of childhood studies, animation, film and television studies, psychology and sociology"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 07, 2024). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Batkin, Jane. Childhood in animation Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025 9780367758554 |
| Genre/form | Film criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques cinématographiques. |
| LCCN | 2024016116 |
| ISBN | 9781003164296 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1003164293 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1040099874 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781040099872 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | paperback |