Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood

1. Introduction: ‘Palimpsestuous Intertextuality’ and the Cultural Politics of Childhood
Robyn McCallum

2. The Imperial Child and the Romantic Child: Film Adaptation as Cultural Capital
Robyn McCallum

3. The Dream Child and the Wild Child: Adapting the Carnivalesque
Robyn McCallum

4. ‘Flapping Ribbons of Shaped Space-Time’: Genre Mixing, Intertextuality and Metafiction in Fiction and Film Adaptation
Robyn McCallum

5. Angels, Monsters and Childhood: Liminality and the Quotidian Surreal
Robyn McCallum

6. Invisible Children: Representing Childhood Across Cultures
Robyn McCallum

7. Epilogue
Robyn McCallum

Keywords: Literature, Children's Literature, Movie and TV Adaptations, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Genre