IF, 2024

The phenomenon of childhood, which regards a child not merely as a "little adult" as was the case in Victorian England, but as a person in an extremely delicate phase of development requiring meticulous care, only spread widely relatively recently — in the mid-20th century. Almost immediately, childhood became a subject of pop culture. To cartoons and comics, which had catered to children since the 1930s, cinema was added in the 1970s following the release of "Star…