Triangulating Terabithia.
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| Title: | Triangulating Terabithia. |
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| Authors: | Diffrient, David Scott Scott.Diffrient@colostate.edu |
| Source: | Journal of Children & Media. Nov2011, Vol. 5 Issue 4, p442-456. 15p. |
| Subject Terms: | Fantasy (Psychology), Gender role, Made-for-TV movies, Newbery Medal |
| Reviews & Products: | Bridge to Terabithia (Book) |
| People: | Paterson, Katherine |
| Abstract: | As a big-budget adaptation of Katherine Paterson's 1977 Newbery Award-winning novel of the same title, the 2007 Walden Media/Walt Disney family film Bridge to Terabithia departs from its source material in telling ways, subtly shifting the motives, manners, and yearnings of the main adolescent characters while compounding the complexities of gender roles and class relations. In this essay, I triangulate three texts—the novel, the recent motion picture, and a little-seen Canadian telefilm of the same title (released in 1985)—so as to arrive at a better understanding of how different types of cultural production respond to questions of masculinity and femininity over time, in different historical periods. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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| Database: | Education Research Complete |
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