Bad seeds and holy terrors : the child villains of horror film / Dominic Lennard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lennard, Dominic, author.

Series:

SUNY series, horizons of cinema.

SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror films--History and criticism.

Horror films.

Children in motion pictures.

Villains in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.

Contents:

""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 1950's 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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438453309

1438453302

OCLC:

893686876