MAPACA

Mid-Atlantic Popular &
American Culture Association

Exploring how cultural knowledge becomes “translated” as it moves from the societies in which it circulates to the big screen, this panel will seek to understand how filmmakers approach children and childhood. It will inspect animated films in order to ask how canonical works for adults such as Swan Lake are adapted for young viewers, analyze the differences between children’s stories and the films they are adapted into via much-loved classics like The Jungle Book, while also scrutinizing how the presence of children in movements like the Sanctuary Movement become translated or erased through documentaries like El Norte.

Film translates high culture and cultural knowledge into low culture