Children Reinventing Cinema: Snapshots from the Early 21st Century

Alexandra Schneider
meson press
2025-06-16

Children today discover a new digital drawing tool, the camera-crayon, at a very young age. They appropriate devices such as compact cameras and mobile phones and make their own media artifacts in their play. Expanding on a media-archaeological approach to film history, this book maps children’s playful and imaginative knowledge of contemporary media culture and explores their filmmaking practices that push the boundaries of forms and formats.

Metadata Formats

Publisher Links

Included in Packages

Keywords

  • Films, cinema
  • Media studies
  • Films, cinema
  • Media studies: internet, digital media and society
  • Education
  • P87-96
  • camera
  • children
  • cinema
  • film
  • formats
  • media archaeology
  • media culture
  • mobile phone
  • play

Children Reinventing Cinema: Snapshots from the Early 21st Century

Alexandra Schneider

meson press

2025-06-16

CC BY-SA

Children today discover a new digital drawing tool, the camera-crayon, at a very young age. They appropriate devices such as compact cameras and mobile phones and make their own media artifacts in their play. Expanding on a media-archaeological approach to film history, this book maps children’s playful and imaginative knowledge of contemporary media culture and explores their filmmaking practices that push the boundaries of forms and formats.

Download Formats

Included in Packages

Topics

  • Films, cinema
  • Media studies
  • Films, cinema
  • Media studies: internet, digital media and society
  • Education
  • P87-96
  • camera
  • children
  • cinema
  • film
  • formats
  • media archaeology
  • media culture
  • mobile phone
  • play