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[labellementeuse]

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.

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[angry-in-pink.livejournal.com]

Robin Jarvis' books are very dark, especially Deathscent, the Depthford Histories and Tales from the Wyrd Museum. Usually the 'goodies' win, but at a large personal cost.

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, I've only read one of those so far, they're awesome!

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I've read the Tales from the Wyrd Museum and really liked them. I'm not quite sure if they're what I mean though - they're very dark, but they're not so depended on broad awareness of other texts in the way I mean.