Abstracts, Seminar 9 |
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Children´s Stories and Multimedia
“Cartoons as a Medium for Conveying History” (Abstract 53) Jesús Pertinez López & M a Carmen Hidalgo Rodríguez, Spain
Children's illustrations have been used for many years as images to convey history. Since the 19 th century, the movements of various optical toys that had been invented were also used to bring the same history to a different audience. From Kircher and his Sacred History, the experiments carried out by Winsor McCay, to the feature-length animations created by today's large studios - all of these different media tell more or less recent historical stories to an ever-growing audience. This article aims to show how cartoons are another medium, perhaps the best, for telling children and young people about history. We will describe the development of the technical means that allow history to be distorted to give a biased focus, and how globalisation of the market has led to the adaptation of history to make it politically correct. In the final section, we will concentrate on Spain and the way in which history has been represented in the feature films produced by Spanish studios, and compare this with its representation in the television series broadcast over recent years. This final part of the study has been carried out by a Fine Art Research Group from the University of Granada .
BibliographyBECK, J (2004) Animation Art. From pencil to pixel. London . Flame Tree Publishing LUCCI, G (2005) Animación. Barcelona . Mondadori Electa WELLS, P (2002): Animation. Genre and authorship . London . Wallflower Press WELLS, P (2000): Understanding animation . London , Routledge
Contact details: Jesús Pertíñez López y Mª Carmen Hidalgo Rodríguez Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad de Granada Avda. de Analucía, s/n. 18071 Granada. España
Tlfno y Fax: 958261553
jplopez@ugr.es / hidalgor@ugr.es
The Anxieties of a City and the Lost Children — How the Reality and the Imaginative Discourse Interact with Each Other in My Life as McDull (2001) and McDull, Prince de la Bun (2004) (79)
Hsiao-yin Huang, National Taiwan Normal University
This paper aims at exploring two animation films directed by Hong Kong director Jian-tao Yuan. My Life as McDull (2001) and its serial McDull, Prince de la Bun (2004) depict about the everyday events of a little piglet living in the rapidly changing Hong Kong . While the life of McDull serves as the foreground of the story, the Hong Kong landscape, which is whirled into waves of struggles to redefine its identity, lurks behind, making this story an epitome of the life of the generation caught up in the melancholy of contemporary Hong Kong at the historical juncture. Circumscribed by the uncertainties of the future of the city, the children in the film are not only thrown into a power-infused urban environment, but also suffer from the rootless state of life. How the children are inflicted by the fragmentary cultural heritage of the city is also highlighted in the film. The generation of McDull suffers from a strong sense of loss since they are no longer endowed with powerful cultural traditions. Interestingly, the film's treatment of the lost folk ritual of “bun-snatching” results in the re-enactment of the ritual in real-life Hong Kong in 2005. How the reality and the imaginative interface of a cultural discourse as the film filter into each other is thus a main issue to be tackled in this paper.
Hsiao-yin Huang smallwhale25@ hotmail.com • 2F, No.27, lane 456, Guang-fu South Road , Taipei , Taiwan 886-2-27080835
Hsiao-yin Huang is a PhD student in the literature program in English in National Taiwan Normal University , Taiwan . She has been writing children's book reviews for a variety of local newspapers and has presented several papers in the R.O.C. English and American Literature Association Conference and also in The 18th Biennial Congress of IRSCL . Her research interests include urban literature, Asian American literature, and children's literature.
Children´s Literacy and Technologies: Enhancements or Disenchantments of Intra-Global Children's Stories Associate professor, dr. Constance Ulmer, NC, USA
With the increase of global connections through technology and the demand for equity of resources and knowledge throughout the world, the internet has become the major source and dissemination of information. Children from all over the world reach each other through a vast array of global networks. With added communications through these networks a child's world is no longer one of solitude, loneliness, contentment or serenity. Some of the stories being shared online are common and comforting tales, while others are stories of disbelief and challenging. What are our students learning from reaching so far beyond the comfort of their homes? What type of internet services are being used to instruct and teach children's literature? What type of book talks (reader responses) are conducted online? The purpose of this seminar is to share information learned from a study of online children's books and sites related to children's stories around the world. The study began in October 2007 and ends in October 2008. A total of twenty five sites were investigated with 250,000 being the lowest number of hits on one site and 164,000,000 the largest number of hits on a site. Come prepared to discuss these questions and more.
Dr. Constance Ulmer Appalachian State University Associate Professor Language Reading and Exceptionalities (LRE) Reich College of Education 208 D Duncan Hall ASU Box 32085 Boone , NC 28608-2085
I have taught children's literature along with other reading courses (content reading, adult literacy, comprehension, beginning reading etc.) at Appalachian State University for 13 years and 4 years at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls Iowa.. Taught both graduate and undergraduate courses. If you need official resume I can email one to you. Constance Ulmer
Ed.D Texas A&M University (Commerce Station) Doctorate reading (minors: special ed, early childhood,elementary education) 1987-1992
Ed.M . University of Virginia Masters of reading (minor: special education) 1984-1986 B.S. Central Michigan University Bachelor of Science English ( minors; psychology, philosphy)1971- 1975 |