Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature articles from March 2005

Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature archives from March 2005

Editorial.
March 1, 2005... In the way that submissions to journals sometimes observe a strange synchronicity, this issue commences with three essays focusing on film. Relatively little work has been carried out on the ideologies of films designed specifically for...

'You can't say no to the Beauty and the Beast': Shrek and ideology.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... In 2002 the Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced that we are living in 'the post-feminist stage of the debate.' As Anne Summers documents in The End of Equality: Work, Babies and Women's Choices in Twenty-First Century Australia...

Food poisoning: surplus and suffering in contemporary children's film.
March 1, 2005... It is perhaps unsurprising that the intended viewing audience of mainstream children's films (in the Western world at least) are assumed to be well fed. The opening line of Dreamworks' 2004 hit feature Shark Tale foregrounds this relationship...

E.T. go home: indigeneity, multiculturalism and 'homeland' in contemporary Science Fiction cinema.
March 1, 2005... In Gwendolyn Audrey Foster's investigation of the performance of whiteness in Hollywood cinema, she claims that Science Fiction cinema is 'a zone in which issues of race can be evaded' (2003, p.11). Indeed, both Science Fiction books and cinema...

Seeing and understanding: narrative technique in Berlie Doherty's Dear Nobody.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2005... Berlie Doherty's young adult novel Dear Nobody was first published in 1991 and won the Carnegie Medal in the following year. It has since been made into a radio play, a television screen-play, and a theatre script, and has been translated into...

Examination, surveillance and confession in Victorian and late 20th century texts.
March 1, 2005... That childhood, adolescence and adulthood are culturally constructed categories is almost a truism in critical writing on children's literature. However, the jury is still out on the extent to which modern views of childhood constitute what...

Of the postmodernists' party without knowing it: Philip Pullman, hypermorality and metanarratives.
March 1, 2005... Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy is thematically concerned with resisting existing social codes and practices, particularly those linked with the practice of organized religion. Pullman attempts to establish a secular humanist...

Situating childhood: a reading of spatiality in Aboriginal picture books.
March 1, 2005... There is no unspatialized social reality (Soja 1996, p. 46). Representing spatiality Stuart Hall contends that '[p]ractices of representation always implicate the positions from which we speak or write--the positions of...