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Bad Seeds And Holy Terrors

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Author : Dominic Lennard
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2014-10-09

Bad Seeds And Holy Terrors written by Dominic Lennard and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-09 with Performing Arts categories.

Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror's most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of The Exorcist (1973) to psychic ghost-girl Samara of The Ring (2002) and adopted terror Esther of Orphan (2009). Using a variety of critical approaches, including those of cinema studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors offers the first full-length study of these child monsters. In doing so, the book highlights horror as a topic of analysis that is especially pertinent socially and politically, exposing the genre as a site of deep ambivalence toward—and even hatred of—children.

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Author : Dominic Lennard
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2014-10-09

Bad Seeds And Holy Terrors written by Dominic Lennard and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-09 with Performing Arts categories.

Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children. Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror’s most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of The Exorcist (1973) to psychic ghost-girl Samara of The Ring (2002) and adopted terror Esther of Orphan (2009). Using a variety of critical approaches, including those of cinema studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors offers the first full-length study of these child monsters. In doing so, the book highlights horror as a topic of analysis that is especially pertinent socially and politically, exposing the genre as a site of deep ambivalence toward—and even hatred of—children. “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

Holy Terrors

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Author : D. M. Greenwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-08

Holy Terrors written by D. M. Greenwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-08 with categories.

Misfit Children

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Author : Markus Bohlmann
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2016-12-14

Misfit Children written by Markus Bohlmann and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-14 with Social Science categories.

Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in this slipperiness of misfits and explores the blockages and the promises of such movements, as well as the processes and conditions that produce misfits, the means that enable them to undo their denomination as misfits, and the practices that turn those who fit into misfits, and vice versa. This collection of essays on misfit children produces transmissible motions across and engages in scholarly conversations that unfold betwixt and between in order to make rigid concepts twist and twirl, and ultimately fail to fit.

Holy Terrors

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Author : Arthur Machen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

Holy Terrors written by Arthur Machen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.

Cruel Children In Popular Texts And Cultures

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Author : Monica Flegel
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-04-19

Cruel Children In Popular Texts And Cultures written by Monica Flegel and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-19 with Literary Criticism categories.

This book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in child agency. Examining representations of cruel young people in popular texts and popular culture, the collected essays demonstrate how gender, race, and class influence who gets labeled 'cruel' and which actions are viewed as negative, aggressive, and disruptive. It shows how representations of cruel young people negotiate the violence that shadows polite society, and how narratives of cruelty and aggression are used to affirm, or to deny, young people’s agency.

Evil Children In The Popular Imagination

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Author : Karen J. Renner
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-12-15

Evil Children In The Popular Imagination written by Karen J. Renner and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-15 with Social Science categories.

Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J. Renner argues that the recent proliferation of stories about evil children demonstrates not a declining faith in the innocence of childhood but a desire to preserve its purity. From novels to music videos, photography to video games, the evil child haunts a range of texts and comes in a variety of forms, including changelings, ferals, and monstrous newborns. In this book, Renner illustrates how each subtype offers a different explanation for the problem of the “evil” child and adapts to changing historical circumstances and ideologies.

Holy Terrors

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Author : Diane M. Greenwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997-11-01

Holy Terrors written by Diane M. Greenwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-11-01 with Braithwaite, Theodora (Fictitious character) categories.

Shocking Cinema Of The 70s

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Author : Julian Petley
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-11-18

Shocking Cinema Of The 70s written by Julian Petley and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-18 with Performing Arts categories.

This collection focuses on 1970s films from a variety of countries, and from the marginal to the mainstream, which, by tackling various 'difficult' subjects, have proved to be controversial in one way or another. It is not an uncritical celebration of the shocking and the subversive but an attempt to understand why this decade produced films which many found shocking, and what it was that made them shocking to certain audiences. To this end it includes not only films that shocked the conventionally minded, such as hard core pornography, but also those that outraged liberal opinion – for example, Death Wish and Dirty Harry. The book does not simply cast a critical light on a series of controversial films which have been variously maligned, misinterpreted or just plain ignored, but also assesses how their production values, narrative features and critical receptions can be linked to the wider historical and social forces that were dominant during this decade. Furthermore, it explores how these films resonate in our own historical moment – replete as it is with shocks of all kinds.

Little Horrors

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Author : T.S. Kord
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2016-07-25

Little Horrors written by T.S. Kord and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-25 with Performing Arts categories.

Zombies, werewolves and chainsaw-wielding maniacs are tried-and-true staples of horror films. But none can match the visceral dread evoked by a child with an innocent face and a diabolical stare. Cinema's evil children attack our cherished ideas of innocence and our innocent bystander status as the audience. A good horror film is a scary ride--a "devil child" movie is a guilt trip. This book examines 24 international films--with discussions of another 100--that in effect "indict" viewers for crimes of child abuse and abandonment, greed, social and ecological negligence, and political and war crimes, and for persistent denial of responsibility for them all. For 75 years evil children have ritually rebuked audiences and, in playing on our guilt, established a horror subgenre that might be described as a blood-spattered rampage on an ethical mission.