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Australian Council for Children's Films and Television : a history 1957-1989 / by Betty Rankin Melbourne: The Council, 1990.
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Care for kids education news : the education newsletter of the Australian Children's Television Foundation Fitzroy, Victoria: Australian Children's Television Foundation, [1997].
CorpAuthor: Australian Children's Television FoundationSource: ATPlace: Fitzroy, VictoriaPublisher: Australian Children's Television FoundationPubDate: [1997]Subject: AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S TELEVISION FOUNDATION ; CHILDREN, PROGRAMMES FOR. AUSTRALIA ; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR. AUSTRALIA ; EDUCATION, TV. AUSTRALIA Summary: The Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) is a non-profit organisation which formed in March 1982. When television was introduced to Australia in 1956, most of the content was imported and for many years the programs being shown in children’s viewing times were not actually designed for children.
The Children’s Television Standards introduced in 1979 was a direct outcome of community concern over television programming for children. These standards required a minimum amount of age specific, quality children’s programs on commercial television.
In 1979 Dr Patricia Edgar presented a paper in which she argued that quality programs for young people would not be made without a not-for-profit production company producing and developing programs. Not longer after, a proposal to establish the Australian Children’s Television Foundation was developed.
The ACTF have helped produce, distribute and market numerous Australian television shows and telemovies including 'Winners & More Winners' series (1985 - 1994), Round the Twist (1989-2000), Lift Off (1992-1994), Mortified! (2006-2007), Lockie Leonard (2006-2009) and Double Trouble (2007) and personal favourite 'Little Lunch' (2015-2016). As well as being responsible for many wonderful shows ACTF produced a number of different paper publications all available to view at the AFI RC including: 'Care for Kids Television News' (AFI RC hold No. 1 August 1982 – No. 133 November 2015); 'Care for Kids Education News'; Australian Children’s Television Action Committee and Australian Children’s Television Foundation Lift Off Outreach. -- AFIRCNotes: Caption title.
Care for kids education news is designed specifically for teachers in early childhood, primary and secondary settings.
Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://www.actf.com.au/learning_centre_new/Ed_News/EdNewsIssues/ed_news_frameset.htmISSN: 1445100XMissing Issues: Issue 1, 3, 5-21,23Order Notes: current
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CHILDREN, FILMS FOR Digital clippings file available
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The children's film : genre, nation and narrative / Noel Brown New York: Wallflower Press, 2017.
Call No: 722-053.2 BROAuthor: Brown, Noel Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Wallflower PressPubDate: 2017PhysDes: 124 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmSeries: Short cutsSubject: CHILDREN AND THE CINEMA ; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR Summary: An introduction to the children's film examines its recurrent themes, narratives and stylistic principles. It explores how children's cinema has developed across its broad historical and geographic span, with reference to films from Europe, the United States, Russia, India and China. Analysing changes and continuities in how children's film has been conceived, it argues for a fundamental distinction between commercial productions intended primarily to entertain and non-commercial film made under pedagogical principles, produced for purposes of moral and behavioural instruction. In elaborating these different forms, this book outlines a history of children's cinema from the early days of commercial cinema to the present, explores the key critical issues, and provides case studies of major children's films, including The Wizard of Oz, Emil and the Detectives, The Red Balloon and Frozen -- TAKEN FROM BACK COVERISBN: 9780231182690Donation: donated by Senses of CinemaContents: The children's film -- Hollywood, children's cinema and the family audience -- Children's film, nation and identity -- Contemporary children's cinema: national and transnational trends -- Postscript
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Children's film distribution in Australia : Young Australia Films Survey / this survey has been sponsored by the Marketing Branch and the Creative Development Branch of the Australian Film Commission Young Australia Films Pty Ltd, 1983.
Call No: 301.1-4(94) CHIPublisher: Young Australia Films Pty LtdPubDate: 1983PhysDes: 185 pages ; 30 cmSubject: CHILDREN, FILMS FOR ; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR. AUSTRALIA ; DISTRIBUTION. AUSTRALIA Summary: "The purpose of this survey is to cover information related to general distribution and to specialised distribution [in particular for children's films] which the producers will face in search of the "best" distribution plan. It will also deal with specific questions and problems which are unique to children's films" -- taken from page 2Contents: Section one: aims of the survey -- Section two: introduction -- Section three: responsibilities of the distributor -- Section four: distribution of children's film through the majors -- Section five: independent cinemas -- Section six: non-theatrical -- Section seven: the distribution through town halls -- Section eight: club distribution -- Section nine: school distribution -- Section ten: Statistics - List of all cinemas and drive-ins in each state - List of all halls suitable for screening in each state - List of all clubs in each state
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Cinema. Television. Movies Budapest(?): Hungarofilm,
Call No: 023(439.1) HUNCorpAuthor: HungarofilmPlace: Budapest(?)Publisher: HungarofilmPhysDes: n.p. : illustrated ; 14 cmSubject: HUNGARY ; SHORT FILMS ; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR Summary: Catalogue of short films, divided thematically.Language: French/English/German/Spanish
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Contemporary Hollywood cinema / edited by Steve Neale and Murray Smith London New York: Routledge, 1998.
Call No: 71(73) CONAuthor: Neale, Stephen ; Smith, Murray, 1962 Place: London New YorkPublisher: RoutledgePubDate: 1998PhysDes: xxii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: USA ; TECHNOLOGY AND THE CINEMA ; DISTRIBUTION. USA ; EXHIBITION. USA ; WIDE-SCREEN SYSTEMS ; SPECTATORSHIP ; MEN IN FILMS. USA ; MELODRAMA ; MUSIC, FILM ; SOUND TRACKS ; TELEVISION AND THE CINEMA ; FAMILY IN FILMS. USA ; NARRATIVE IN FILMS ; BLACK CINEMA. USA ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS. USA ; BLOCKBUSTERS ; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; CENSORSHIP. USA ; INDEPENDENT FILMS. USA ; WOMEN, FILMS FOR ; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA ; HORROR FILMS. USA ; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR ; ACTION FILMS ; AUDIENCES ; MIRAMAX FILMS ; NEW LINE CINEMA ; TIME WARNER ; VERHOEVEN, PAUL ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; HAMILTON, LINDA ; MCDORMAND, FRANCES ; ELFMAN, DANNY ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; FARGO (US, Ethan Coen, 1996) ; BASIC INSTINCT (US, Paul Verhoeven, 1992) ; BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1992) ; BATMAN (US, Tim Burton, 1989) ; BATMAN RETURNS (US, Tim Burton, 1992) ; RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (US, Steven Spielberg, 1981) ; JURASSIC PARK (US, Steven Spielberg,, 1993) ; LION KING, THE (US, Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994) ; TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (US, James Cameron, 1991) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-318) and indexISBN: 0415170095; 0415170109 (pbk.)LON: 98005952; 13736490
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Cultural, children's, instructional and documentary films
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Festival of television for Australian children : August 1996, teachers' handbook Brisbane, Queensland: The Festival of Television for Australian Children, 1996.
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Festival of television for Australian children : August 1997, teachers' handbook Brisbane, Queensland: The Festival of Television for Australian Children, 1997.
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Film genre 2000 : new critical essays / edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon Albany: State University of New York Press, c2000.
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Filmmakers search for new family flavour in Sun Herald (04/10/2015) p.25
Call No: SUBJECT CLIPPINGS FILE; SCREEN AUSTRALIAAuthor: Quinn, Karl PhysDes: Clippings File ArticleSubject: SCREEN AUSTRALIA ; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR. AUSTRALIA Summary: Report on Screen Australia looking to fund script development for potential children's film. Discussion about why children's films in Australia are not made very often, even though there have been significant successes in this genre
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Films in 1951 : a special publication on British films and film-makers for the Festival of Britain London: Published by Sight & Sound for the British Film Institute, [1951].
Call No: 71(41) FILCorpAuthor: British Film InstituteSource: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Published by Sight & Sound for the British Film InstitutePubDate: [1951]PhysDes: 72 p. illus. 28 cmSubject: RANK ORGANISATION ; CENSORSHIP. UK ; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR. UK ; SOCIETIES, FILM. UNITED KINGDOM ; AMATEUR FILMS. UK ; FESTIVALS. EDINBURGH ; EDUCATION, FILM. UK ; INDUSTRY, FILM. UK ; KORDA, ALEXANDER ; EALING STUDIOS ; REED, CAROL ; CLARKE, T E B ; CARDIFF, JACK ; HARRIS, JACK ; OLIVIER, LAURENCE ; ALWYN, WILLIAM ; HOBSON, VALERIE ; BALCON, MICHAEL ; Grierson, John Summary: Focuses on a number of different films, people, and areas within the British film industry at the time of publication.Notes: Includes list of film companies and studios -; Includes list of distribution and exhibition companies -; Includes list of production organisations -; Includes bibliography
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Finnish cinema / Peter Cowie Helsinki: VAPK-Pub., 1990.
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For kids of all ages : the National Society of Movie Critics on children's movies / edited by Peter Keough Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.
Call No: 722-053.2 FORAuthor: Keough, Peter Edition: 2020Place: Lanham, MarylandPublisher: Rowman & LittlefieldPubDate: 2020PhysDes: xvi, 274 pages : illustrated ; 23 cmSubject: CHILDREN, FILMS FOR Summary: In For Kids of All Ages,members of the National Society of Film Critics celebrate the wonder of childhood in cinema. In this volume, original essays commissioned especially for this collection stand alongside classic reviews from prominent film critics like Jay Carr and Roger Ebert. Each of the ten sections in this collection takes on a particular aspect of children’s cinema, from animated features to adaptations of beloved novels. The films discussed here range from the early 1890s to the present. The contributors draw on personal connections that make their insights more trenchant and compelling. The essays and reviews in For Kids of All Ages are not just a list of recommendations—though plenty are included—but an illuminating, often personal study of children’s movies, children in movies, and the childish wonder that is the essence of film.
Contributors include John Anderson, Sheila Benson, Jay Carr, Justin Chang, Godfrey Cheshire, Morris Dickstein, Roger Ebert, David Fear, Robert Horton, J. R. Jones, Peter Keough, Andy Klein, Nathan Lee, Emanuel Levy, Gerald Peary, Mary Pols, Peter Rainer, Carrie Rickey, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Michael Sragow, David Sterritt, Charles Taylor, Peter Travers, Kenneth Turan, James Verniere, Michael Wilmington, and Stephanie Zacharek. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781538128589Contents: Introduction
1. From Child to Critic: From Toddler to Auteurist: A Film Critic, the Early Years / Gerald Peary -- Children of the Hydra: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Special Effects Master Ray Harryhausen / James Verniere -- How Seeing Airport (1970) as a Kid Grounded My Critical Sensibility / Charles Taylor -- Revisiting Old Yeller (1957) and Yellow Submarine (1968) / Peter Keough -- Light in Auggie: In Wonder (2017), a Deformed Child Isn’t the Only Flawed Character / J. R. Jones -- The Many Kinds of Movie Wonder / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Infant Cinema in Querelle enfantine/A Childish Quarrel (1896) / Robert Horton
2. Adventures in Animation: The Ageless Wonder of Bambi (1942) / Michael Wilmington -- Raising the Art of Animation to a Higher Level in Up (2009) / Peter Keough -- Of Eternity and Beyond: Toy Story 3 (2010) / John Anderson -- Spinning Gold from Plastic in The Lego Movie (2014) / Andy Klein -- The Spirit of the West Is Alive and Well in Rango (2011) / Michael Wilmington -- Weirdness for Both Kids and Adults: The Triplets of Belleville (2003) / Gerald Peary -- Bear Meets Mouse in Ernest & Celestine (2012) / Michael Sragow -- Underground Comedy in The Boxtrolls (2014) / John Anderson -- Ideals Crash to Earth in The Wind Rises (2013) / Michael Sragow -- The Red Turtle (2016) Is a Myth in the Making / Peter Rainer
3. Beast Fables: Into the Wild: Four Variations on The Jungle Book / Michael Sragow -- An Ape Shall Show the Way: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) / Michael Sragow -- Long Live the King: King Kong (1933) / Jay Carr -- No Reining in White Mane (1953) / David Sterritt -- In Babe (1995), a Pig Shows the Way / Carrie Rickey -- Accidental Tourist: Babe: Pig in the City (1998) / Stephanie Zacharek
4. Dreams, Fantasies, and Nightmares: There’s No Film Like Oz: The Wizard of Oz (1939) / Michael Wilmington -- The Animated Enchantment of Song of the Sea (2014) / Justin Chang -- A Dream of Evil in The Night of the Hunter (1955) / Robert Horton -- Careful What You Wish For: The Red Shoes (1948) / Sheila Benson -- Between the Fantastic and the Mundane: The Curse of the Cat People (1944) and Poltergeist (1982) / David Sterritt -- Fauny Girl: Innocence Finds a Way through Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) / Peter Keough -- Beauty and the Beast Within: Four Versions of Beauty and the Beast / Peter Keough
5. Well Adapted (or Maladjusted): The Three Ages of Little Women: 1933, 1949, and 1994 / Carrie Rickey -- A Consummate Christmas Carol (1951) / Michael Wilmington -- Dancers Bring to Life Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971) / Sheila Benson -- Enchantingly Blunt: A Little Princess (1995) / John Anderson -- Martin Scorsese Pays Tribute to Cinema and Childhood in Hugo (2011) / Emanuel Levy -- Smart Times at Beverly Hills High in Clueless (1995) / Kenneth Turan -- Henry James’s Dark Screwball Comedy: What Maisie Knew (2012) / Gerald Peary -- From Neverland to Shadowlands: Hollywood’s Romance with Children’s Book Authors / Peter Keough -- Mary Poppins Returns, and She’s Closer to the Feisty Original / J. R. Jones
6. Matters of Life and Death: Children of War: Germany Year Zero (1948) and Forbidden Games (1952) / Morris Dickstein -- A Search for Hope in the Ruins: The Search (1948) / Emanuel Levy -- Innocent Bystanders: Five Films about Kids Growing Up in an Unforgiving World / Jay Carr -- Politics Makes for Poor Parenting in A World Apart (1988) / Peter Rainer -- Iran’s Child-Centered Films / Godfrey Cheshire
7. Ordinary Heroes: Punk Heroines in We Are the Best! (2013) / Sheila Benson -- Dancing “By Myself ” in The Band Wagon (1953) / Stephanie Zacharek -- Growing Up Female in Lady Bird (2017), The Fits (2015), and Leave No Trace (2018) / Robert Horton -- Perverse Conversion in The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) / Robert Horton -- Boys Will Be Girls in Ma Vie en Rose (1997) / Nathan Lee -- Flower Power: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2005) / Godfrey Cheshire -- Uneasy Rider / Peter Keough
8. Extraordinary Heroes: Terror Tactics in Batman Begins (2005) / Peter Keough -- Black Panther (2018) Makes Superhero History / Peter Travers -- Wonder Woman (2017) Enters the Pantheon / Michael Sragow -- Children’s Crusades / Peter Keough -- Superpowers Run in the Family in Incredibles 2 (2018) / Michael Sragow
9. Home Movies: The Family Values of Paddington (2014) and Paddington 2 (2017) / Peter Keough -- Bearing the Burden of Growing Up in Christopher Robin (2018) / Michael Sragow -- A Family Melodrama without the Drama in A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (1998) / David Sterritt -- Not Such a Merry Little Christmas in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) / Emanuel Levy -- Life without Father in The Railway Children (1970) / Sheila Benson -- A Child Is Lost in Loveless (2017) / Peter Rainer -- A Child Is Found in Our Little Sister (2015) / Robert Horton
10. From Critic to Child: Where the Kids Are: Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Hip Heroes: Elf (2003) and Shrek (2001) / Kenneth Turan -- Being a Grown-Up Is Fun in Hatari! (1962) / Charles Taylor -- Borderline Taste: Crossing Generations with The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966) and ¡Three Amigos! (1986) / Peter Keough -- All of the Feels: Inside Out (2015) / David Fear -- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) / Roger Ebert -- Watching Boyhood (2014) with a Boy and Eighth Grade (2018) with an Eighth Grader / Mary Pols
Appendix: MPAA Ratings -- Permissions -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors
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Horror films for children : fear and pleasure in American cinema / Catherine Lester London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Call No: 735.2-053.2(73) LESAuthor: Lester, Catherine Edition: 2022Place: London ; New YorkPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPubDate: 2022PhysDes: vii, 220 pages : illustrated ; 25 cmSubject: HORROR FILMS ; CHILDREN, FILMS FOR ; CHILDREN, EFFECTS OF FILM ON ; CORALINE (US, Henry Selick, 2009) ; GREMLINS (US, Joe Dante, 1984) ; HOLE, THE (US, Joe Dante, 2009) ; MONSTER HOUSE (US, Gil Kenan, 2006) ; MONSTER SQUAD, THE (US, Fred Dekker, 1987) ; NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, THE (US, Henry Selick, 1993) ; PARANORMAN (US, Chris Butler/Sam Fell, 2012) ; SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (US, Jack Clayton, 1983) ; WATCHER IN THE WOODS (UK, John Hough, 1980) Summary: Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media. Nowhere is this tension more clear than in horror films for adults, where the demonic child villain is one of the genre's most enduring tropes. However, horror for children is a unique category of contemporary Hollywood cinema in which children are addressed as an audience with specific needs, fears and desires, and where child characters are represented as sympathetic protagonists whose encounters with the horrific lead to cathartic, subversive and productive outcomes.
Horror Films for Children examines the history, aesthetics and generic characteristics of children's horror films, and identifies the 'horrific child' as one of the defining features of the genre, where it is as much a staple as it is in adult horror but with vastly different representational, interpretative and affective possibilities. Through analysis of case studies including blockbuster hits (Gremlins), cult favourites (The Monster Squad) and indie darlings (Coraline), Catherine Lester asks, what happens to the horror genre, and the horrific children it represents, when children are the target audience? -- publisher's web pageISBN: 9781350135260
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Program for tomorrow : report of the Australian Children's Film and Television Seminar North Ryde, N.S.W.: Australian Film and Television School, 1977.
Call No: 722-053.2 AUSSource: ATPlace: North Ryde, N.S.W.Publisher: Australian Film and Television SchoolPubDate: 1977PhysDes: iv, 254 p. ; 30 cmSubject: CHILDREN, FILMS FOR. AUSTRALIA ; CHILDREN, PROGRAMMES FOR. AUSTRALIA Notes: Australian Children's Film and Television Seminar was held 12-16 October, 1977 in Canberra A.C.T.
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Railways in the cinema / John Huntley London: Ian Allan, 1969.
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Reel time : big weekend box office for Aussie family flicks in The Australian (30/09/2015) p.15
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Victorian Council for Children's Films and Television Annual Report S.l.: s.n., 1993/94 -.
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