Go to the NSW DET curriculum support: School libraries resource list and click on the link called “resource list” for a great list of novels, short stories, drama, poetry, non-fiction, film and multimedia that relate to Belonging.
Where the Wild Things Are October 26, 2009
Where the Wild Things Are is a picture book written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak (for more information click here). Recently, a film
adaptation was directed by Spike Jonze. The Sydney Morning Herald published a news article online called ‘Children’s classic ‘Wild Things’ arrives on big screen’ (Woollard, oct 13 2009) in which Jonze said the following about making the film.
“I think the idea was not to make a children’s movie but a movie about childhood,” he said. “‘Wild Things’ has feelings that you recognize as being true to childhood. I think kids respond to things that don’t condescend to them, and Maurice’s work doesn’t condescend to them. And that’s what Maurice told us is in this movie — don’t pander to children.”
Additionally, in a review of the film in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Spectrum called ‘Monster challenge’ by Stephanie Bunbury(18-19 Oct 2009), Jonze discusses his approach to making the film.
Questions
It is possible for an author to manipulate their text in order to make the audience feel a sense of belonging to the text. What do the quotes reveal about Jonze’ desire to make the audience feel a sense of attachment/detachment to his film?
Image courtesy of MTV
Related material October 23, 2009
Click on the link to access Suggested Related Material from Karen Yager and AB ‘Banjo’ Paterson Library scanned on Friday 23 October 2009. N/b this is a PDF.
