Film Landscapes of Global Youth

Imagining Young Lives

Stuart C. Aitken, Jacob Rowlett

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032389158
• eBook ISBN: 9781003861195
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Human Geography

This book explores the dynamic landscapes of global youth through spatially grounded chapters focused on film and media. It is a collection of incredible works concerning children and young people in, out, and through media as well as an examination of what is possible for the future of research within the intersections of geography, film theory, and children's studies.

It contains contributions from leading academics from anthropology, sociology, philosophy, art, film and media studies, women and gender studies, Indigenous studies, education, and geography, with chapters focused on a spatial area and the representations and relationships of children in that area through film and media. The insights presented also provide a unique and eclectic perspective on the current state of children's research in relation to the ever-changing media landscape of the 21st century. Film Landscapes of Global Youth approaches the subjects of children and young people in film and media in a way that is not bound by genre, format, medium, or the on-/off-screen binary. Each chapter offers an insightful look at the relationships and portrayals of children and young people in relation to a specific country, culture, or geographic feature.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersections between geography, young lives, and the power of film, television, social media, content creation, and more.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• 1 Introducing the Film Landscapes of Global Youth
• 2 Anita: Journeying through Landscapes of Loss and Hope in Buenos Aires
• 3 Two Girls, Two Islands, Two Images: New Cinema in the Faroe Islands
• 4 Becoming a Filmmaker, an Adult, and an Italian?: Shooting the New Italian Youth and Their Rites/Rights of Passage
• 5 Leaves on a Pillow: The Representation of Street Children in the Indonesian Film Daun di Atas Bantal
• 6 Portraying Genocide through the Eyes of Children: The Troubled Geographies of Authenticity in Loung Ung’s First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
• 7 Cinematic Counter-Cartographies of Black and Brown Girlhood in the French Banlieue
• 8 Toward a Deterritorialized Nomadism: The Transversal Role of Children in Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987) and Life and Nothing More . . . (1992)
• 9 Indigenous Children in Canadian Cinema: Ethnographic Explorations and National Narratives in the Early Films of Harlan Ingersoll Smith and Alanis Obomsawin
• 10 Hope through Creation: Celtic Kids and Tomm Moore’s The Secret of Kells
• 11 The (Common) Worlds of Dragons: Nature, Humans, and the Anthropocene in Children’s Films
• 12 “A Futuristic Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer?”: Race, Class, and Boyhood in Star Trek’s 24th Century
• 13 “Why Are You Here, Rey from Nowhere?”: The Hero’s Journey, Island Storytelling, and the Gendered Roles of Heroes in the Star Wars Saga
• 14 Finland Extended: Encounters with Top Gun Films and the Emerging Post-Social Landscapes of Youth
• 15 Cinema Out of Sight: The Role of Film Halls for Street Youth in Harare, Zimbabwe
• 16 ‘What Do You See Guys? Comment Down Below’ Children Becoming YouTubers in the Park: Experimentation with Digital Content Creation
• 17 History, Memory, Media: Revisiting the Films from My Research on Children’s Work and Play in Sudan
• 18 Musings and Reflections: Children, Young People, Film
• Bibliography
• Index