Radical Children's Film and Television

What an exciting collection: scholarly yet accessible, international in focus and also drawing from outstanding contributors from all over the world, dealing with controversial subjects but doing so in a balanced way. This book is an essential reference for anyone interested in transformative children’s culture, past and present. * Julia L Mickenberg, Professor of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin *
Radical Children’s Film and Television is a unique and vital contribution to children’s screen studies in part because it sharpens and clarifies the concepts of radical form, content, and appropriation in the ongoing discussion of media made for child audiences. In an era where authoritarianism’s cruelty is made most visible upon the dead or the maimed and emaciated bodies of children from Gaza to the Sudan, Radical Children’s Film and Television demonstrates through its historical depth and global contexts that the radical potentiality of children’s media cannot be stifled by the closed fists of authoritarian brute force and that innocence is but a weapon too often wielded in the hands of guilty adults. -- André Seewood * Film International *