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Subject(s)

• Children in motion pictures [Browse]
• Motion pictures—Social aspects [Browse]
• Motion pictures—Psychological aspects [Browse]
• Motion pictures—Political aspects [Browse]

Related name

• Olson, Debbie C., 1961- [Browse]
• Scahill, Andrew, 1977- [Browse]

Summary note

"Children have been a part of the cinematic landscape since the silent film era, yet children are rarely a part of the theoretical landscape of film analysis. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema, edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill, seeks to remedy that oversight. Throughout the over one-hundred year history of cinema, the image of the child has been inextricably bound to filmic storytelling and has been equally bound to notions of romantic innocence and purity. This collection reveals, however, that there is a body of work that provides a counter note of darkness to the traditional portraits of sweetness and light. Particularly since the mid-twentieth century, there are a growing number of cinematic works that depict childhood has as a site of knowingness, despair, sexuality, death, and madness. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema 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."--Publisher's description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Introduction / Debbie Olson and Andrew Scahill
• 1. "I see dead people": ghost-seeing children as mediums and mediators of communication in contemporary horror cinema / Sage Leslie-McCarthy
• 2. "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
• 3. Wednesday's child: adolescent outsiders in contemporary British cinema / Stella M. Hockenhull
• 4. Wonka, Freud and the child within: (re)constructing lost childhood in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Adrian Schober
• 5. "It's all for you, Damien!": Oedipal horror and racial privilege in The Omen series / Andrew Scahill
• 6. Written on the child: race, class, gender, and sexuality in Gummo / Sarah E.S. Sinwell
• 7. The ideal immigrant is a child: Michou d'Auber and the politics of immigration in France / Nicole Beth Wallenbrock
• 8. Representations of African childhood in conflict and post-conflict contexts: Johnny Mad Dog, Ezra, and Sleepwalking Lard / Christine Singer and Lindiwe Dovey
• 9. Displacing red childhood: representations of childhood during Mao's era in Little red flowers / Kiu-wai Chu
• 10. Batteries are running out: Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen / Gilles Chamerois
• 11. A Krank's dream: epistemology, aesthetics, and ideology in The city of Lost Children / Carolyn Salvi
• 12. Childhood, ghost images, and the heterotopian spaces of cinema: the child as medium in The Others / Christian Stewen
• 13. The Hitchcock imp: children and the hyperreal in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds / Debbie Olson
• 14. Experiencing Hüzün/Pooch through the loss of life, limbs and love in Turtles Can Fly / Fran Hassencahl.

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ISBN

• 9780739170250 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739170252 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780739170267 (electronic)
• 0739170260 (electronic)

LCCN

^^2012009403

OCLC

778416993

RCP

H - S

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