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worryingly jolly batman ([personal profile] labellementeuse) wrote2007-09-28 10:08 am

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Hi y'all, I have a quick question.

We've been doing "Matilda" in English at the moment, which has been really fun. Some things people have suggested in terms of the kind of film/text it is is as a part of a kind of "children's noir" or "family black comedy", texts that are darker, more sophisticated, and much more intertextual than books or films for children are generally considered to be - children reading/watching these texts have some understanding of stereotype, parody, they understand the conventional storyline and they also understand when the conventional storyline is deliberately being twisted. A really good example of this is A Series of Unfortunate Events. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents is another good one. I was wondering if anyone else had any examples? it's a really interesting idea and I'd like to look at it in more detail, maybe for an essay I'm writing.

[identity profile] anna-en-route.livejournal.com 2007-09-27 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmmm not too sure about the black humour but Patricia Wrede's dragon series certainly plays with the traditions.


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[identity profile] labellementeuse.livejournal.com 2007-09-30 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
I haven't read them! I should check them out.