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"Thanks to their huge market success, animations from The Disney Company and blockbuster franchises like Harry Potter have dominated 'family film' production. Yet there is a long, varied and largely untold history of films made for 'family' audiences of adults and children outside the United States, and of non-Disney family films in Hollywood.

Family Films in Global Cinema is the first serious examination of films for child and family audiences in a global context. Whereas most previous studies of children’s films and family films have concerned themselves solely with Disney, this book encompasses both live-action and animated films from the Hollywood, British, Australian, East German, Russian, Indian, Japanese and Brazilian cinemas. As well as examining international family films previously ignored by scholars, the collection also presents a fresh perspective on familiar movies such as The Railway Children, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Babe, and the Harry Potter series.

Coinciding with a surging critical interest in children’s culture, Family Films in Global Cinema brings together film and television critics and historians, children’s literature scholars and folklorists. Contributors interrogate the generic aspects of family films, analysing their key formal and thematic characteristics, revealing their commonalities and variations across social and cultural borders, questioning what makes them enduringly popular for adults as well as children, and underlining their enormous richness and diversity."

Introduction: Children's Films and Family Films; Noel Brown and Bruce Babington

PART I: QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY

1. Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls: Babe and Babe: Pig in the City; Bruce Babington
2. 'A film specially suitable for children': The Marketing and Reception of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); Peter Krämer
3. 'Why Can't They Make Kids' Flicks Anymore?': Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and the Dual-Addressed Family Film; Adrian Schober
4. 'This is Halloween': The History, Significance, and Cultural Impact of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas; James M. Curtis

PART II: THE CHILD AND THE FAMILY

5. Sabu, the Elephant Boy; Jeffrey Richards
6. The Classical Hollywood Family on Screen: Living with Father and Remembering Mama; Bruce Babington
7. The Railway Children, and Other Stories: Lionel Jeffries and British Family Films in the 1970s; Noel Brown
8. 'Luke, I am your father': Toys, Play Space, and Detached Fathers in Post-1970s Hollywood Family Films; Holly Blackford

PART III: CINEMA AND STATE

9. 'Films to Give Kids Courage!': Children's Films in the German Democratic Republic; Benita Blessing
10. Post-Soviet Parody: Can Family Films about Russian Heroes be Funny?; Natalie Kononenko
11. A Brief History of Indian Children's Cinema; Noel Brown

PART IV: NATIONAL IDENTITIES

12. Brazilian Children's Cinema in the 1990s: Tensions Between the National-Popular and the International-Popular; Mirian Ou and Alessandro Constantino Gamo
13. Narrative, Time, and Memory in Studio Ghibli Films; Tom Ue
14. Dark Films for Dark Times: Spectacle, Reception, and the Textual Resonances of the Hollywood Fantasy Film; Fran Pheasant-Kelly"