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Childhood is a notion that has had different meanings in different geographies throughout history. Some historians recall that medieval art did not have childhood imagery, suggesting that there is no childhood category in the Middle Ages. This claim means that childhood is a category emerging in modernity. In the same period, cinema becomes like childhood. Strategies of modernization have shaped both childhood and cinema. This article tries to understand the transformational dynamic of children’s images from the first films to the present-day cinema. The story of childhood growth is a journey from innocence to discontent. Because cinema does not see childhood as just a construction site. Cinema has the potential to show the dysfunction of modern strategies run on childhood, especially by presenting an alternative fact about childhood in a particular cinema genres. The article will analyze this transformation with examples from different geographies and different film genres. The key concepts are the metaphorical and metonymic narrative concepts that Kellner and Ryan put forth. The film types that see childhood as the subject of construction will be analyzed with the concept of “metaphoric” and the film genres that emphasize the realistic experience of childhood with the concept of “metonimic”.

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