Robyn Mccallum: 3 books
Screen Adaptations and the Politics of Childhood
Transforming Children's Literature into Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
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 children....
Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction
The Dialogic Construction of Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction examines the representation of selfhood in adolescent and children's fiction, using a Bakhtinian approach to subjectivity, language, and narrative. The ideological frames within which identities are formed are inextricably bound up with ideas about subjectivity,...
Retelling Stories, Framing Culture
Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
What happens to traditional stories when they are retold in another time and cultural context and for a different audience? This first-of-its-kind study discusses Bible stories, classical myths, heroic legends, Arthurian romances, Robin Hood lore, folk tales, 'oriental' tales, and other stories...