Growing Up On Screen -- Childhood and Youth in Movies

Author: Xiang Xiang
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Publish Date: 2005-07-04
Features: Once there was a drummer named Oscar who refused to grow up, his height stuck at 94 centimeters. Once upon a time, we all had a height of 94 centimeters, but then we grew taller, and the sky above our heads grew taller too. Growth is a major theme in life and art. As the seventh art, cinema is like a talking mirror, reflecting countless scenes of growth. This book selects 24 growth-themed films and presents them in a visually rich format, reconstructing the human testimonies, physical evidence, and testimonies of a growth story, striving to preserve the scenes we once lived in amidst the passage of time. An incomplete list of growth-themed films is appended at the end of the book.