Description

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First single-authored monograph on screen adaptations of texts for children and young people
Develops a cohesive and conceptually framed analysis of texts in a range of genres
Views adaptation as a dialogic process that results in an intricate web of intertextuality.

About the Author

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Robyn McCallum is an independent scholar in the area of children's and youth literature, film and culture. She taught at Macquarie University, Australia, for twenty-five years, and is author of Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction (1999), and co-author of Retelling Stories, Framing Culture (1998; with John Stephens) and New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature (2008; with Clare Bradford, Kerry Mallan and John Stephens).