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This module will look at the relationship between cinema and the child, paying attention to questions of theory, politics, aesthetics, and performance. The presence of the child in film has provoked questions about correlations between the child鈥檚 perception and film itself, and discussions about ways in which the medium might emulate child perception. The figure of the child is associated, discursively and culturally with a range of issues which play out in cinema in interesting ways. This module will discuss ways in which the child is present in cinema from different global traditions, genres and schools. Indicative filmography includes: The Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948), The Young and the Damned (Bu帽uel, 1950), The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959), The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973), My Life in Pink (Berliner, 1997) The Swamp (Martel, 2001), Bad Education (Almod贸var, 2004), Under the Same Moon (Riggen, 2007), Bad Hair (Rond贸n, 2013).

Preparatory Reading

• Bal谩sz, B茅la. 2011 [1924]. 鈥榁isible Man.鈥� In B茅la Bal谩zs: Early Film Theory: Visible Man and The Spirit of Film, edited by Erica Carter, 1-90. New York: Berghahn Books.
• Bazin, Andr茅. 1997 [1949]. 鈥楪ermany, Year Zero.鈥� In Bazin at Work: Major Essays and Reviews from the Forties and Fifties, edited by Bert Cardullo, 121-24. London: Routledge.
• Hemelryk Donald, Stephanie, et. Al., eds. 2017. Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinemas: Borders and Encounters. New York: Bloomsbury.
• Henzler, Bettina and Winfried Pauleit, eds. 2018. Childhood, Cinema and Film Aesthetics, edited by Bettina Henzler and, 10-32. Berlin: Bertz and Fischer.
• Holland, Patricia. 2004. Picturing Childhood: The Myth of the Child in Popular Imagery. London: I.B.Tauris.
• Jones, Owain. 2007. 鈥業dylls and Othernesses: Childhood and Rurality in Film.鈥� In Cinematic Countrysides, edited Robert Fish, 177-94. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• Kelleher, Joe. 1998. 鈥楩ace to Face with Terror: Children in Film.鈥� In Children in Culture: Approaches to Childhood, edited by Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, 29-54. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Kuhn, Annette. 鈥楥inematic Experience, Film Space and the Child鈥檚 World.鈥� Canadian Journal of Film Studies 19, no. 2: 82-98.
• Kuhn, Reinhard. 1982. Corruption in Paradise: The Child in Western Literature. Hanover: Brown University Press.
• Lebeau, Vicky. 2008. Childhood and Cinema. London: Reaktion Books.
• Lury, Karen. 2005. 鈥楾he Child in Film and Television: Introduction.鈥� Screen 46, no. 3: 307-14.
• ---. 2010a. The Child in Film: Tears, Fears and Fairytales. London. I.B. Tauris.
• ---. 2010b. 鈥楥hildren in an Open World: Mobility as Ontology in New Iranian and Turkish Cinema.鈥� Feminist Theory 11, no.3: 283-94.
• Martin, Deborah. 2019. The Child in Contemporary Latin American Cinema. New York: Palgrave.
• Miller, Tyrus. 2003. 鈥楾he Burning Babe: Children, Film, Narrative, and the Figures of Historical Witness.鈥� In Witness and Memory: The Discourse of Trauma, edited by Ana Douglass and Thomas A. Vogler, 207-31. New York: Routledge.
• Powrie, Phil. 2005. 鈥楿nfamiliar Places: 鈥淗eterospection鈥� and Recent French Films on Children.鈥� Screen 46, no.3: 341-52.
• Randall, Rachel. 2017. Children on the Threshold in Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Nature, Gender, and Agency. Lanham: Lexington Books.
• Wilson, Emma. 2005. 鈥楥hildren, Emotion and Viewing in Contemporary European Film.鈥� Screen 46, no.3: 329-40.
• Wright, Sarah. 2013. The Child in Spanish Cinema. Manchester: Manchester University Press.