Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film (eBook)

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Zoe Jaques (Herausgeber)

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2021 | EPUB Single
284 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-3193-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Winner of the 2023 Edited Book Award from the International Research Society for Children's LiteratureContributions by Aneesh Barai, Clementine Beauvais, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Terri Doughty, Aneta Dybska, Blanka Grzegorczyk, Zoe Jaques, Vanessa Joosen, Maria Nikolajeva, Marek Oziewicz, Ashley N. Reese, Malini Roy, Sabine Steels, Lucy Stone, Bjorn Sundmark, Michelle Superle, Nozomi Uematsu, Anastasia Ulanowicz, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, and Jean Webb Intergenerational solidarity is a vital element of societal relationships that ensures survival of humanity. It connects generations, fostering transfer of common values, cumulative knowledge, experience, and culture essential to human development. In the face of global aging, changing family structures, family separations, economic insecurity, and political trends pitting young and old against each other, intergenerational solidarity is now, more than ever, a pressing need. Intergenerational Solidarity in Children's Literature and Film argues that productions for young audiences can stimulate intellectual and emotional connections between generations by representing intergenerational solidarity. For example, one essayist focuses on Disney films, which have shown a long-time commitment to variously highlighting, and then conservatively healing, fissures between generations. However, Disney-Pixar's Up and Coco instead portray intergenerational alliances-young collaborating with old, the living working alongside the dead-as necessary to achieving goals. The collection also testifies to the cultural, social, and political significance of children's culture in the development of generational intelligence and empathy towards age-others and positions the field of children's literature studies as a site of intergenerational solidarity, opening possibilities for a new socially consequential inquiry into the culture of childhood.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Children's Literature Association Series
• Reihe/Serie: Children's Literature Association Series
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b&w illustrations; 2 tables
• Verlagsort: Jackson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: aging • Aidan Chambers • Astrid Lindgren • Brian Selznick • children’s agency • children’s film • Children’s literature • children’s literature studies • cultures of childhood • Disney • evil stepmother • Family • intergenerational dialog • Intergenerational Solidarity • Judith Kerr • Memory • Miss Peregrine • My Childhood Under Fire • Pixar • pollyanna • Ransom Riggs • Studio Ghibli • the movie Coco • the movie Up • William Godwin
• ISBN-10: 1-4968-3193-4 / 1496831934
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-3193-4 / 9781496831934