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| veröffentlicht: | Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014. ©2014. |
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SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema Series
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| Medientyp: | Buch, E-Book |
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| Umfang: | 1 online resource (198 pages) |
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| ISBN: |
9781438453309
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema Series
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| Print version:: |
Lennard, Dominic, Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors, Albany : State University of New York Press,c2014
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| Kollektion: | E-Books adlr |
Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children. |
| Intro Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Little Horrors: Introduction To Catch Them Unawares: Horror's Evil Innocents The Plot It's Only a Movie 1. Reaching the Age of Anxiety: The 1950s and the Horror of Youth Troubled Teens: The Juvenile Delinquent on Film Sowing Bad Seeds: Creating the Child as Monster Conclusion 2. Spoiled Rotten: Horror's Bourgeois Brats Killing with Class: The Bad Seed Heirs Aberrant: Village of the Damned Conclusion 3. A Scary Sight: The Looking Child An Uncertain Zoom: Power and Perspective in Halloween The To-Be-Looked-At Child Eyes That Paralyze: Village of the Damned Conclusion 4. "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle": The Child Villain's Malignant Mom Treachery on the Home Front Sons of Bitches: The Brood "All of them Witches": Maternal Alienation and Rosemary's Baby Conclusion 5. Vicious Videos, Missing Mothers: The Ring Murderous Work: The Career Mom and the Killer Home Alone and Hating It: The Postmodern Child Anxiety Reruns from the Golden Age Conclusion 6. Little Bastards: Patriarchy's Errant Offspring in It's Alive and The Omen The End Times for Patriarchy: The Omen Black Majesties "Somehow the identities get all mixed up": Fatherhood, Science, and Semen in It's Alive Semen Stains Conclusion 7. Past Incarnations: The Exorcist and the Tyranny of Childhood Little Dimi "Why you do this to me?" "Come into me . . ." Conclusion 8. All Fun and Games till Someone Gets Hurt: Hating Children's Culture No Place Like Home: Deep Red and the Iconography of Childhood Model Behavior: Child's Play Conclusion 9. Too Close for Comfort: Child Villainy and Pedophilic Desire in Hard Candy and Orphan Naughty but Nice: Hard Candy Surgical Separation: The Viewer and the Pedophile. Adult Irresponsibility, or the Child with No Name The Reveal That Conceals: Excusing Improper Desire in Orphan "Fucking Children" "I don't know what to do!": Blurred Vision, Blurred Boundaries Conclusion Afterword Notes Works Cited Index. |