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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

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About the Author

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).