Chocolate Factory

Angelina Sanchez

 Annotated Bibliography for

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964, novel)

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Genre:

McCallum, R. (n.d.). Ideology and Children’s Books. Retrieved from Research Gate website: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308719543_Ideology_and_Children’s_Books

This article talks about ideolgy and social assumptions such gender, race, and class. How it impacts the production and reception of children's literature.

Moore, S. (2018, December 13). Multicultural Children’s Literature in the U.S. Since the 1960s. Retrieved September 30, 2020, from mcstor.library.milligan.edu website: https://mcstor.library.milligan.edu/handle/11558/4293

This article examines how poor-quality literature perpetuates stereotypes whereas quality literature is culturally authentic. It discusses modern-day guidelines of quality multicultural children’s literature and explores the meaning of cultural authenticity.

Pulimeno, M., Piscitelli, P., & Colazzo, S. (2020). Children’s literature to promote students’ global development and wellbeing. Health Promotion Perspectives, 10(1), 13–23. https://doi.org/10.15171/hpp.2020.05

This article examines the pedagogic/didactic (teaching) and psychological/therapeutic dimensions of children’s literature. The article pulls from 55 different studies, from the 1960s to 2019.

Taxel, J. (2002). Children’s Literature at the Turn of the Century: “Toward a Political Economy of the Publishing Industry.” Research in the Teaching of English, 37(2), 145–197. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/40171621

This article talks about multi cultural children's literature in the publishing industry and the political and economic factors behind said literature.

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Social History:

Corbin, C., & Raiford, L. (n.d.). Deconstructing Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory: Race, Labor, and the Changing Depictions of the Oompa-Loompas. Retrieved from https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/UCB_McNair_Journal_2012_wc.pdf

This article talks about the Oompa Loompas and how they relate to globalization and slavery. How descriptions of the Oompa Loopas have changed over the last 60 years, and what that means about the society it was published in.

Miller, I. S. (2018). READING WILLY WONKA IN THE ERA OF ANTI-THINKING. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 78(2), 113–125. https://doi.org/10.1057/s11231-018-9139-4

This article referrs to Willy Wonka as a morality tale in relation to the precariousness, violence, intergenerational faith, and materialist fantasies that are reflective of contemporary life in the early twenty-first century. Talks about what these themes meant/what was going on in 1964, 1971, and today.

Oh No! The Depressing Truth About the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory Workers | History News Network. (n.d.). Retrieved September 30, 2020, from historynewsnetwork.org website: https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170755

This article talks about race and white supremacy within all three Chocolate Factory mediums, specifically in reguards to the Oompa Loompas. Talks about how these topics have changed and/or stayed the same in each adapataion and what that means about society.

Schober, A. (n.d.). Diversifying the Children in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: From Page to Screen. Retrieved from Research Gate website: Diversifying the Children in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: From Page to Screen

This article talks about the levels of diversity in the film/novel reguarding the children shown by nationalities, personalities, and sterotypes. In the book, Charlie and the other children's "color" was not specified. Adaptations with illistruations showed the childern to be white. In the movies, directors considered making children more diverse yet decided against it. Talks about what that meant during the time period, and what it means now.

 

I am not sure about the limit of sources we can use for this adaptation presentation, but I'm planning on having around 10-12.