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OverviewExamines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dominic LennardPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.481kg ISBN: 9781438453293ISBN 10: 1438453299 Pages: 195 Publication Date: 01 November 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"List of Figures Acknowledgments Little Horrors: Introduction 1. Reaching the Age of Anxiety: The 1950s and the Horror of Youth 2. Spoiled Rotten: Horror's Bourgeois Brats 3. A Scary Sight: The Looking Child 4. ""The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"": The Child Villain's Malignant Mom 5. Vicious Videos, Missing Mothers: The Ring 6. Little Bastards: Patriarchy's Errant Offspring in It's Alive and The Omen 7. Past Incarnations: The Exorcist and the Tyranny of Childhood 8. All Fun and Games till Someone Gets Hurt: Hating Children's Culture 9. Too Close for Comfort: Child Villainy and Pedophilic Desire in Hard Candy and Orphan Afterword Notes Works Cited Index"ReviewsDeftly organized, elegantly written, and graced throughout with numerous stills and frame blowups, Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors has something to offer both the lay reader and the scholar. - CHOICE This is impeccably well researched and presented. It holds its own at the top of film studies scholarship. Sprightly in its survey across key areas of cultural anxiety and able to draw on a range of lucid examples, Lennard produces sophisticated and complex extended analyses where necessary. A pleasure to read. - Linda Ruth Williams, University of Southampton, United Kingdom This is impeccably well researched and presented. It holds its own at the top of film studies scholarship. Sprightly in its survey across key areas of cultural anxiety and able to draw on a range of lucid examples, Lennard produces sophisticated and complex extended analyses where necessary. A pleasure to read. - Linda Ruth Williams, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Author InformationDominic Lennard is Associate Lecturer in the Centre for University Pathways and Partnerships at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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