Abstract
The Wizard of Oz brought many now-iconic tropes into popular culture: the yellow brick road, ruby slippers and Oz. But this book begins with Dorothy and her legacy as an archetypal touchstone in cinema for the child journeying far from home. In There's No Place Like Home, distinguished film scholar Stephanie Hemelryk Donald offers a fresh interpretation of the migrant child as a recurring figure in world cinema. Displaced or placeless children, and the idea of childhood itself, are vehicles to examine migration and cosmopolitanism in films such as Le Ballon Rouge, Little Moth and Le Havre. Surveying fictional and documentary film from the post-war years until today, the author shows how the child is a guide to themes of place, self and being in world cinema.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/theres-no-place-like-home-9781838609702/
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/theres-no-place-like-home-9781838609702/
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | London UK |
| Publisher | I.B.Tauris Publishers |
| Number of pages | 275 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781786722867, 9781786732866 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781784534233 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Film
- migrant children
- Visual culture
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Prizes
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Childhood and Nation in World Cinema: Borders and Encounters since 1980
Donald, S. H. (Recipient), Wright, S. (Recipient), Wilson, E. (Recipient) & Qiu, Z. (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Other distinction
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Choice Award (Outstanding Academic Monograph)
Donald, S. H. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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