Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood Transforming Children's Literature into Film /

• Main Author: McCallum, Robyn (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
• Subjects: Children's literature.; Motion pictures.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Film genres.; Children's Literature.; Adaptation Studies.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.; Genre.

This book 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 child...