Children in the films of Steven Spielberg / edited by Adrian Schober and Debbie Olson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schober, Adrian, 1974- editor.

Olson, Debbie C., 1961- editor.

Series:

Children and youth in popular culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spielberg, Steven, 1946---Criticism and interpretation.

Spielberg, Steven.

Spielberg, Steven, 1946-.

Children in motion pictures.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 284 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

Contents:

Introduction / Adrian Schober

Spielberg and the kidult / Noel Brown

Unconditional love, hysterical motherhood and the lost/possessed child: Steven Spielberg's something evil / Adrian Schober

Ambiguous loss: the depiction of child abduction in Spielberg's early films / James Kendrick

"I'll be right here!": dealing with emotional trauma in and through E.T. the extraterrestrial / Peter Krämer

Children, innocence and agency in the films of Steven Spielberg / Ingrid E. Castro

Childhood, race, and the politics of dirt in Steven Spielberg's The color purple / Debbie Olson

Betwixt-and-between: reclaiming childhood in Hook / Jen Baker

Hooked on happy thoughts: new sincerity and Spielberg's troubled nostalgia for mythic childhood / Jessica Balanzategui and Gabrielle Kristjanson

Bipolar boys: Spielberg's manic-depressive children / Andrew M. Gordon

Trauma, loss, anxiety: Spielberg's missing children in Minority report, Jurassic Park and War of the worlds / Fran Pheasant-Kelly

Body consciousness and adolescence in The adventures of Tintin: the secret of the unicorn / Leonie Rutherford.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Children in the films of Steven Spielberg.

ISBN:

9781498518840

1498518842

OCLC:

933590437