Lost and othered children in contemporary cinema
By: Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill, [editors]
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739170250; 9780739170267
Subjects: Motion pictures; Social aspects; Children in motion pictures; Political aspects; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Debbie Olson, Andrew Scahill; title: I see dead people: ghost-seeing children as mediums and mediators of communication in contemporary horror cinema / Sage Leslie-McCarthy; title: 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; title: Wednesdays Child: Adolescent Outsiders in Contemporary British Cinema / Stella M. Hockenhull; title: Wonka, Freud and the Child Within: (Re) Constructing Lost Childhood in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Adrian Schober; title: Representations of Childhood and Conflict in African Fiction Film / Christine Singer and Lindiwe Dovey; title: Pity the Child: Exploring Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Gummo (1997) / Sarah E. S. Sinwell; title: The Ideal Immigrant is a Child: Michou d'Auber and the Politics of Immigration in France / Nicole Beth Wallenbrock; title: It's all for you, Damien!: Oedipal Horror and Racial Privilege in The Omen series / Andrew Scahill; title: Little Rebels in Mao's Era: Representing Children of the Past in Zhang Yuan's Little Red Flowers (Yuan Zhang, 2006) / Kiu-wai Chu; title: Batteries Have Run Out: Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen / Gilles Chamerois; title: A Krank's Dream: Conflicts Between Form and Narrative in City of Lost Children / Carolyn Salvi; title: Childhood, Ghost Images, and the Heterotopian Spaces of Cinema: The Child as Medium in The Others / Christian Stewen; title: The Hitchcock Imp: Children and the Hyperreal in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) / Debbie Olson; title: Experiencing Hüzün Through the Loss of Life, Limbs, and Love in Turtles Can Fly / Fran Hassencahl.