In the fall of 2024, two new books on Danish and Swedish children’s films were published, offering many interesting perspectives on both contemporary screenwriting and production strategies or questions of historical developments, ideology and aesthetics. These books are not open access and quite expensive to buy, but the manuscripts can be downloaded in full pdf versions from certain university libraries.
The ECFA academic board regrets that this kind of academic research is not more freely available, but we still want to point to new and valuable research like this as well as other recent scholarly publications like the work of Cary Bazalgette on how toddlers learn the secret language of movies.
Swedish Children’s Cinema: History, Ideology and Aesthetics edited by Malena Janson:
Writing and Producing for Children and Young Audiences: Cases from Danish Film and Television by Eva Novrup Redvall
How Toddlers Learn the Secret Language of Movies by Cary Bazalgette
If there are questions about the books, the scholars can be contacted through their university websites:
Malena Janson, Stockholm University
Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen
Cary Bazalgette, University College London
Introduced by Eva Novrup Redvall