Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters
Essays on Cinema's Holy Terrors
Perhaps because of the wisdom received from our Romantic forbears about the purity of the child, depictions of children as monsters have held a tremendous fascination for film audiences for decades. Numerous social factors have influenced the popularity and longevity of the monster-child trope but its appeal is also rooted in the dual concepts of the child-like (innocent, angelic) and the childish (selfish, mischievous). This collection of fresh essays discusses the representation of monstrous children in popular cinema since the 1950s, with a focus on the relationship between monstrosity and childness, a term whose implications the contribut…
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Weitere Autoren: Moreland, Sean (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7864-9479-8
- EAN: 9780786494798
- Produktnummer: 17302454
- Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.7 cm 446 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 446
Über den Autor
Markus P.J. Bohlmann is professor of English at Seneca College, Toronto, USA. He has published in venues such as Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities and Children's Literature Association Quarterly , and he is on the editorial board of Red Feather Journal: An International Journal of Children's Popular Culture . He lives in Toronto, Canada. Sean Moreland teaches at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and his interests include 19th century and modern American literature as well as Gothic and horror fiction. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.
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