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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
12. Change and Continuity in Contemporary Children’s Cinema
Author : Noel Brown
Published in: The Palgrave Handbook of Children's Film and Television
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
In the context of the continued evolution of children’s film into and through the early twenty-first century, this chapter examines a boundary-pushing example of contemporary children’s film, the recent French-Swiss animation, My Life as a Courgette (Ma vie de courgette, Claude Barras 2016). Widely interpreted by critics as a radical departure from classical children’s film (and even, in some quarters, as an adult-orientated film), My Life as a Courgette challenges many of the narrative and representational motifs of the children’s genre. However, drawing parallels with other twenty-first-century international children’s films, this chapter highlights the ways in which the film adheres to more traditional features of children’s cinema that date back to the early twentieth century.