Children's Books on the Big Screen

by Meghann Meeusen

Book Overview

In Children's Books on the Big Screen, Meghann Meeusen goes beyond the traditional adaptation approach of comparing and contrasting the similarities of film and book versions of a text. By tracing a pattern across films for young viewers, Meeusen proposes that a consistent trend can be found in movies adapted from children's and young adult books: that representations of binaries such as male/female, self/other, and adult/child become more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496828658
• ISBN13: 9781496828651
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"