The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema [electronic resource] : Youth Rebellion and Queer Spectatorship /
Scahill, Andrew.author.
The monstrous child is the allegorical queer child in various formations of horror cinema: the child with a secret, the child 'possessed' by Otherness, the changeling child, the terrible gang. This book explores the possibilities of 'not growing up' as a model for a queer praxis that confronts the notion of heternormative maturity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography.
The monstrous child is the allegorical queer child in various formations of horror cinema: the child with a secret, the child 'possessed' by Otherness, the changeling child, the terrible gang. This book explores the possibilities of 'not growing up' as a model for a queer praxis that confronts the notion of heternormative maturity.
Motion pictures-History.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Communication.
Motion pictures and television.
Arts.
Film genres.
Film History.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Media Studies.
Screen Studies.
Arts.
Genre.