Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction - Noel Brown Part I: Questions of Theory and Practice 1. Is a Radical Children's Film and Television Possible? - Noel Brown 2. What is Radical Television for Children? A Transnational and Historical Exploration from Left to Right - Helle Strandgaard Jensen 3. Revolt in a Boarding School: Aesthetic and Political Radicalism in the French Children's Film Zéro de conduite ( Zero for Conduct ) by Jean Vigo - Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer 4. The Problem of Audience: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. , Dr. Seuss and the Children's Film - Adrian Schober 5.
What do you Mean, 'Horrible'? The Radicalism of Horrible Histories - Máire Messenger Davies Part II: Subversive Social Commentary 6. Dick and Dom in da Place/Space to Be: 'Bogies' as Situationist-Carnival - Richard Berger and Ashley Woodfall 7. Children's Films and Cosmology - Ian Wojcik-Andrews 8. Worlds Apart: Growing Pains and Radical Politics in Xhanfise Keko's Pas Gjurmëve - Jonida Gashi 9. 'No, there will never be a dictatorship again in Argentina': Remembering the Dictatorship (1976-1983) and Empowering the Child Citizen in Argentinian Animation - Vladimir Cotal San Martin and Georgia Aitaki Part III: Manifestos for Change 10. Radical Rodents and Suffering Hounds in Don Bluth's The Secret of NIMH and Martin Rosen's The Plague Dogs - Helena Bacon and Adam Whybray 11. 'How Far Would You Go?': Conceptualising Extremist Youth Activism in International Screen Adaptations of The Third Wave Social Experiment - Carla Plieth 12. (Re)orientations for Living with Toxicity in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - Teresa Humphrey and Cory Jobb Part IV: Radical Experiments 13.
Breaking Taboos: Swedish Children's TV in the Radical Era of the 1970s - Malena Janson 14. Welshness, Class and Sexuality: A Thematic Reading of The Owl Service (1970) - Robert Shail 15. Animated Traumas: The Films of Anita Killi - Ole Christoffer Haga 16. Assemblages of Wonder and Ecologies of Sound in Bluey and Summer Camp Island - Penni Russon Part V: Audiences, Participation and Appropriation 17. Do Babies and Toddlers Need Radical Films and TV? - Cary Bazalgette 18. A Message Movie (Un)Suitable for Children? Public Debates About the Politics and Audiences of Avatar (2009) - Peter Krämer 19. From Courage the Cowardly Dog to the Creepypasta: Formal Destabilisation and Direct Address in Children's Horror Television - Bence Bardos 20. F is for Friends, G is for Gay: Bert, Ernie, and the Radical Potential of Childhood's Queer Friendships - Ryan Bunch 21.
Children's Film Festivals as Potential Spaces for Radical Content/Consumption - Barbora Kyas and Noel Brown Afterword - Kimberley Reynolds.