An inconvenient growth: watching child actors, growing up, sideways and backwards in contemporary British film and television

Lury, K. (2018) An inconvenient growth: watching child actors, growing up, sideways and backwards in contemporary British film and television. In: Dintner, S. and Schneider, R. (eds.) Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Childhood in Contemporary Britain. Series: Studies in childhood, 1700 to present. Routledge: New York ; London, pp. 103-119. ISBN 9781138232105

Abstract

This chapter has three linked aims. its primary aim is to explore, through a discussion of contemporary British film and television texts, the apparently inevitable and neutral topic of growth, or growing, in childhood. Second, it addresses questions of agency and identity in relation to that growth and, third, it considers the question of the child's growing body and its interdependence with his or her closest kin, peers and environment.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Lury, Professor Karen
• Authors: Lury, K.
• Subjects: N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Culture and Creative Arts
• Research Group: Film and Television Studies
• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 9781138232105