Ghastly and ghostly children, "dirty little white girls," and the child as witness and as victim have always played an important part in the history of cinema, as have child performers. Yet the disrup
British Youth Television is the first book to concentrate on the high profile genre of "yoof television." Concentrating on such controversial programs asThe Word, Snub TV and Don't Forget Yo
Karen Lury is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. Interpreting Television takes a radical approach that returns to the currently under-explored te
This anthology is organised into five distinct sections which address the significance, qualities and characteristics speaking to the figure of the child in film. The 'child' is understood as a figur
Examining how animals are exhibited to and encountered by audiences via the close relationship between the zoo and moving image media, contributors consider diverse instances in which the moving image
