Coraline captures what it can really feel like to be a kid. And sometimes that's not great. Let's take a look at Coraline and how the writer Neil Gaiman uses our childhood experiences to make Coraline such a unique film, and why that matters.

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0:00 Intro
1:11 Why is Coraline so Relatable?
6:02 What the F**k is Child Oppression Anyway?
12:13 The Bed You Wake Up In
16:08 It's A Small World
19:33 Why Coraline Matters
25:10 Conclusion
26:18 Recommendations & Thanks!


SOURCES & RELATED READING
Are children oppressed? The timely importance of answering this question https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
14th Amendment https://constitution.congress.gov/bro...
DeShaney v. Winnebago County https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShane...
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming https://www.theguardian.com/books/201...
Judge Rotenberg Educational Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_R...
Youth violence lower in countries with complete ban on corporal punishment https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channe...
Convention on the Rights of the Child https://www.ohchr.org/en/professional...

“Corporal punishment bans and physical fighting in adolescents: an ecological study of 88 countries” by Elgar FJ, Donnelly PD

https://www.aclu.org/blog/humanright...

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...

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