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Turning the Page

Children’s Literature in Performance and the Media

by Fiona M. Collins (Volume editor) Jeremy Ridgman (Volume editor)
©2006 Edited Collection 298 Pages

Summary

Since the nineteenth century, children’s literature has been adapted for both the stage and the screen. As the twentieth century progressed, children’s books provided the material for an increasing range of new media, from radio to computer games, from television to cinema blockbuster. Although such adaptations are now recognised as a significant part of the culture of childhood and popular culture in general, little has been written about the range of products and experiences that they generate. This book brings together writers whose work offers contrasting perspectives on the process of adaptation and the varying transformations – social, historical and ideological – that take place when a text moves from the page to another medium. Linking all these contributions is an interest in the changing definition of children’s literature and its target audience within an increasingly media-rich society.

Details

Pages
298
Publication Year
2006
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039102556
Language
English
Keywords
Massenmedien Kinderliteratur Performance Adaptation Stage & Screen Popular culture Children's literature
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2006. 298 pp.

Biographical notes

Fiona M. Collins (Volume editor) Jeremy Ridgman (Volume editor)

The Editors: Fiona M. Collins is the coordinator of English in Education at Roehampton University. She lectures on a range of children’s literature courses, both undergraduate and post-graduate. She co-edited Historical Fiction for Children: Capturing the Past and co-authored Reading Voices: Young People Discuss Their Reading Choices. Jeremy Ridgman is Principal Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Roehampton University. He has published on various aspects of television drama and television history and is the editor of Boxed Sets: Television Representations of Theatre.

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