Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters
Subtitle: Essays on Cinema's Holy Terrors
Publisher: McFarland
Published: Mar 11, 2015
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780786494798
Description: "Depictions of children as monsters have held a tremendous fascination for film audiences for decades. Numerous social factors have influenced the popularity and longevity of the monster-child trope. This collection of fresh essays discusses the representation of monstrous children in popular cinema since the 1950s, with a focus on the relationship between monstrosity and "childness.""--