Noel Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at Liverpool Hope University. He has written several books on aspects of children's film, family entertainment, and animation, including Contemporary Hollywood Animation (2021), The Children's Film: Genre, Nation and Narrative (2017), British Children's Cinema (2016), and The Hollywood Family Film (2012). He is also co-editor of Toy Story: How Pixar Reinvented the Animated Feature (2018) and Family Films in Global Cinema: The World Beyond Disney (2015).

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• About the Contributors
  


• Introduction: Coming to Terms with Children's Film, Noel Brown


• Part I.ENGenre and Form


• 1. Exploring Cultural and Social Differences in Defining a Children's Film, Becky Parry


• 2. Screening Innocence in Children's Film, Debbie Olson


• 3. Screen Adaptations of The Wizard of Oz and Metafilmicity in Children's Film, Ryan Bunch


• 4. Children's Films and the Avant-Garde, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer


• 5. Intertextuality and "Adult" Humour in Children's Film, Sam Summers


• 6. Children's Film and the Problematic "Happy Ending," Noel Brown


• Part IIENChildren, Childhood, and Growing Up


• 7. The Cop and the Kid in 1930s American Film, Pamela Robertson Wojcik


• 8. History, Forbidden Games, Children's Play, and Trauma Theory, Ian Wojcik-Andrews


• 9. Changing Conceptions of Childhood in the Work of the Children's Film Foundation, Robert Shail


• 10. Migrant Children and the "Space Between" in the Films of Angelopoulos, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald


• 11. Iranian Cinema and a World through the Eyes of a Child, John Stephens


• 12. The American Tween and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, Timothy Shary


• 13. Growing Up on Scandinavian Screens, Anders Lysne


• Part IIIENChildren's Film and Performance


• 14. Mary Pickford, Alma Taylor, and Girlhood in Early Hollywood and British Cinema, Matthew Smith


• 15. Craft and Play in Lotte Reiniger's Fairy-Tale Films, Caroline Ruddell


• 16. Disney's Musical Landscapes, Daniel Batchelder


• 17. Hayley Mills and the Disneyfication of Childhood, David Buckingham


• 18. Danny Kaye as Children's Film Star, Bruce Babington


• 19. Real Animals and the Problem of Anthropomorphism in Children's Film, Claudia Alonso-Recarte and Ignacio Ramos-Gay


• Part IVENChildren's Cinema, Society, and National Identity


• 20. Nation, Identity, and the Larrikin Streak in Australian Children's Cinema, Adrian Schober


• 21. Nationalism in Swedish Children's Film and the Case of Astrid Lindgren, Anders Wilhelm Åberg


• 22. Unreality, Fantasy, and the Anti-fascist Politics of the Children's Films of Satyajit Ray, Koel Banerjee


• 23. Gender, Ideology, and Nationalism in Chinese Children's Cinema, Yuhan Huang


• 24. Ethnic and Racial Difference in the Hungarian Animated Features Macskafogó/Cat City (1986) and Macskafogó 2/Cat City 2 (2007), Gábor Gergely


• 25. Negotiating East and West When Representing Childhood in Miyazaki's Spirited Away, Katherine Whitehurst


• 26. Coming of Age in South Korean Cinema, Sung-Ae Lee


• Part V.ENHollywood and Family Audiences


• 27. The Walt Disney Company, Family Entertainment, and Global Movie Hits, Peter Krämer


• 28. Reading Jason and the Argonauts as a Children's Film, Susan Smith


• 29. Hollywood and the Baby Boom Audience in the 1950s and 1960s, James Russell


• 30. Don Bluth and the Disney Renaissance, Peter C. Kunze


• 31. On "Love Experts," Evil Princes, Gullible Princesses, and Frozen, Amy M. Davis


• 32. Hollywood, Regulation, and the "Disappearing" Children's Film, Filipa Antunes


• Part VI. Audiences, Engagement, and Participatory Culture


• 33. How Children Learn to "Read" Movies, Cary Bazalgette


• 34. Star Wars, Children's Film Culture, and Fan Paratexts, Lincoln Geraghty


• 35. Norwegian Tween Girls and Everyday Life through Disney Tween Franchises, Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen


• 36. A Multimethod Study on Contemporary Young Audiences and Their Film/Cinema Discourses and Practices in Flanders, Belgium, Aleit Veenstra, Philippe Meers, and Daniël Biltereyst


• 37. An Empirical Report on Young People's Responses to Adult Fantasy Films, Martin Barker


• 38. Disney's Adult Audiences, James R. Mason
  


• Index

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Film offers a uniquely comprehensive study of children's cinema from an interdisciplinary, nuanced, global perspective.