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This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege a Western ideal. Rather, this collection seeks to broaden our ideas about children, childhood, and the child's place in the global community. This collection features a wide variety of contributors from around the world who offer compelling analyses of non-Western, non-Hollywood films starring children.
List of contents
Introduction
South America
1. "Girls on the Screen: Gender in Contemporary Argentine Cinema" Carolina Rocha
2. "Children in Brazilian Cinematography" Fabiana de Amorim Marcello
3. "From the Countryside to the City: a Boy's Journey and a World to Know" Lucia Rabello de Castro, Paula Uglione, and Adelaide Rezende de Souza
Africa
4."Turning the Page: Memories of French Algerian Childhoods on Screen" Christa Jones
5. "Forms and Variations of Children's Relationship to Space in Francophone African Fiction Films" Caroline Lardy
6. "Surfing to Adulthood: Childhood, Coming of Age and National Transitions in the South African Fiction Film Otelo Burning (2011)" Christine Singer
Middle East
7. "Children's Groups in the Young State of Israel: Simplicity and Complexity in the Cult Movie ?asamba & the Black Handkerchief Gang (1971)" Einat Baram Eshel
8. "'Stolen/Lost Childhood' and the Inherent Failures of Cinematic Representations: The Case of Palestinian Child Labor" Yoad Eliaz,, Omri Grinberg and Walaa Ghanayim
9. "The Representation of Urban Female Teenagers in Iranian Cinema" Mina Rezaei, Negin Golravesh Fekry, and Seyyed Mohsen Habibi
Southern & Eastern Europe
10. "Lost Boys of the Franco Regime: Masculinity, Memory, and Childhood in Recent Spanish Film" Jessica Davidson
11. "The Figure of the Child as a Contradictory Signifier in Russian Cinema" Michael Brodski
12. "Through a French Lens: Romanian Kids and the Western Narrative of Childhood" Onoriu Colacel
India
13. "Kaakka Muttai: Tamil Children in Global/World Cinema" Swarnavel Eswaran
14. "'Cracking' Nations/notions: A Study of Little Lenny in Deepa Mehta's 1947: Earth" Paromita Deb
Japan
15. "Westernization, Identity and Emerging Notions of Childhood in the Films of Ozu Yasujiro" Kelly J. Hansen
16. "Kiku and Isamu: Beyond the Shitty Realism of Mixed Race Orphans in
Postwar Japan" Kaori Mori Want
17. "Abandon the Young in Tokyo: Yoshitaro Nomura's The Demon and Hirokazu Koreeda's Nobody Knows" Kenta McGrath
China
18., "The Abducted Child Movie in Chinese Cinema" Kobe Chan Yan Chuen
19., "The Alternative Viewfinder of History: Child Vision in Chinese and Sinophone Cinema" Belinda Qian He
20. "We are all Useful People": Useful Children and the Notion of Guai in Transnational Chinese Cinema" Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Sin Wen Lau, and Lennon Yao-chung Chang,
21. "Parable of the Lost Child: Zhang Yimou's Not One Less" Juanita But
New Zealand
22. "Talking Back to the Mainstream - Pop Culture and the Child in the Films of Taika Waititi" Caroline Grose
About the author
Debbie Olson is associate professor at Missouri Valley College.
Summary
This volume offers compelling analyses of children and childhood in non-Western films.
