Introduction
Chapter 1: Childhood, Through a Looking Glass
Chapter 2: Separation: All the Lost Boys
Chapter 3: Fantasy and the Quest
Chapter 4: Horror and the Child: Agency, Fear and Secret Spaces
Chapter 5: The Child’s Gaze: Archives, Audience and the New Media Makers
Chapter 6: 21st Century Kids – Voice, Violence and Disney Pixar
Chapter 7: Locating the Child: The Political, Global and Local
Chapter 8: “Either it’s all ok or none of it is”: Satire and the Weaponized Child
Biography
Jane Batkin is Associate Professor of film and media at the University of Lincoln, where she teaches animation and film studies. She is the author of Identity in Animation (2017) and has had chapters published in several edited collections, including Animated Mischief: Essays on Subversiveness in Cartoons since 1987 (Duchaney and Silverman, 2023), Coraline: A Closer Look at Studio LAIKA’s Stop-Motion Witchcraft (Mihaelova, 2021), and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: New Perspectives on Production, Reception, Legacy (Pallant and Holliday, 2021).
