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Issue 47: Childhood

May 2017

There’s Still a Lot of World to See

Joanna Di Mattia·
Issue 47: Childhood
Reconnecting with childhood joy in Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom Read More

Out of the Depths, I Cry to You: Fear and Truth-telling in The Sixth Sense

Katherine Webb·
Issue 47: Childhood
The truth is complicated, and especially so for children. They see things through the lens of their own limited experience. Read More
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | Warner Bros.

Wild at Heart: On Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are

Chad Perman·
Issue 47: Childhood
Where the Wild Things Are is perhaps the most personal film Spike Jonze has made to date, even if he’s coy about saying so directly. It’s also one of the most accurate portrayals of childhood ever put on screen. Read More

The Little World

Ryan Hogan·
Issue 47: Childhood
On Ingmar Bergman's humane and discursive Fanny and Alexander. Read More

So, Charlie Korsmo, You’ve Become a Pirate

Elisabeth Geier·
Issue 47: Childhood
It's easy to project one's entire childhood onto the child stars one loved most, and to imagine them growing up into the kind of person you want them to be, maybe even a person like yourself. Read More

Born to Buy

D. R. Baker·
Issue 47: Childhood
On Toy Story, Pokemon, and the cyclical, branded buying cycle. Read More

Before the Seed Grows: On Dottie Gets Spanked

Will Fabro·
Issue 47: Childhood
Young children are much more fluid in their expression of gender than is assumed, too young to know or really understand societal norms or essentialist behavior. Read More

And You’ll Teach Me to Be Brave

Hal Koss·
Issue 47: Childhood
Last Action Hero and the screen icons that "are most welcome in the stretch of life when childhood feels painfully untriumphant." Read More

Rags, Riches, and Alligators

David Nilsen·
Issue 47: Childhood
In Sparrows, the 1926 silent film starring Mary Pickford and directed by William Beaudine, “normal” for the children is pretty close to a living hell. Read More

Sam Shakusky Goes To College: An Interview with Jared Gilman

Lauren Wilford·
InterviewsIssue 47: Childhood
"The weirdest thing is seeing yourself tattooed on another person's body. That's happened once. That took me a few days to process." Read More

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