Due to this week’s public holiday, there was no lectorial, which also means no set topic or readings, so I decided to dedicate this blog post to some valuable information for PB4 that is a part of my annotated bibliography.

Wojik-Andrews, I., 2000. Children’s Films: History, Ideology, Pedagogy, Theory. Garland Publishing Inc. – Pages 7-9.

The pages from this text really encapsulate what a major aspect of our presentations will be. The discussion from this excerpt focuses in on the generic narrative structure of children’s films in particular: the “disruption-resolution narrative structure”. It goes on to describe a key feature that is said to have originated from Greek tragedy and is known as an Aristotelian concept that changed cinema permanently, the “beginning, middle and end” structure, which basically refers to establishment, conflict and resolution which is seen across cinema genres even in the 21st Century.

This article will be absolutely integral to both the visual and audio aspects of PB4, mainly because our chosen focus is children’s Narrative and Text. Having a scholarly insight into the structure of linear cinema as well as the structure of counter cinema of abstract or non-narrative children’s films (which we will also be discussing) will give our project credibility as this article directly aligns with our main discussion. This excerpt also touches on the idea of “happily ever after”, which is a key point of our overall discussion, as that is a generic cinematic tool that filmmakers use to gratify audiences so that plots make a full circle.