This valuable entry in the encyclopedia-style Oxford Bibliographies series explores the category of ‘Films for Children’.
It begins with a short but useful summary of the history of (primarily Anglophone) children’s film scholarship that considers how the field has developed across a number of overlapping academic disciplines, including children’s literature, children’s education and literacy, and film and media studies. For children’s media professionals interested in learning more about scholarship on children’s film, the following section – an annotated bibliography which lists a number of key works and provides brief summaries of their focus and significance – may be particularly interesting.
Introduced by Noel Brown