Lost and othered children in contemporary cinema / edited by Debbie Olson and Andrew Scahill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olson, Debbie C., 1961-

Scahill, Andrew, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Psychological aspects.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema, edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill, is an edited collection that challenges notions of the innocent child through an exploration of the dark side of childhood in contemporary cinema. The contributors to this multidisciplinary study offer a global perspective that explores the multiple conditions of marginalized childhood as cinematically imagined within political, geographical, sociological, and cultural contexts.

Contents:

Introduction / Debbie Olson, Andrew Scahill

I see dead people: ghost-seeing children as mediums and mediators of communication in contemporary horror cinema / Sage Leslie-McCarthy

I Can't Go On, I Must Go On: How Jeliza Rose Meets Alice and the Dark Side of Childhood in Terry Gilliam's Tideland / Jayne Steel

Wednesdays Child: Adolescent Outsiders in Contemporary British Cinema / Stella M. Hockenhull

Wonka, Freud and the Child Within: (Re) Constructing Lost Childhood in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Adrian Schober

Representations of Childhood and Conflict in African Fiction Film / Christine Singer and Lindiwe Dovey

Pity the Child: Exploring Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Gummo (1997) / Sarah E. S. Sinwell

The Ideal Immigrant is a Child: Michou d'Auber and the Politics of Immigration in France / Nicole Beth Wallenbrock

It's all for you, Damien!: Oedipal Horror and Racial Privilege in The Omen series / Andrew Scahill

Little Rebels in Mao's Era: Representing Children of the Past in Zhang Yuan's Little Red Flowers (Yuan Zhang, 2006) / Kiu-wai Chu

Batteries Have Run Out: Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen / Gilles Chamerois

A Krank's Dream: Conflicts Between Form and Narrative in City of Lost Children / Carolyn Salvi

Childhood, Ghost Images, and the Heterotopian Spaces of Cinema: The Child as Medium in The Others / Christian Stewen

The Hitchcock Imp: Children and the Hyperreal in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) / Debbie Olson

Experiencing Hüzün Through the Loss of Life, Limbs, and Love in Turtles Can Fly / Fran Hassencahl.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-280-68425-9

9786613661197

0-7391-7026-0

OCLC:

854519904