This study examines children's films from various critical perspectives, including those provided by classical and current film theory.

1. History; 2. Film Historiography and Children's Cinema and Film; 3. The Silent Era; 4. European and International Children's Films: 1930s; 5. American Children's Cinema and Films: 1960s; 6. Readings in ideology; 7. Pedagogy; 8. Elements of Childrens Literature; 9. Children's Films and the Pedagogy of Empire; 10. Theory