Perhaps because of the wisdom received from our Romantic forbears about the purity of the child, 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 but its appeal is also rooted in the dual concepts of the child-like (innocent, angelic) and the childish (selfish, mischievous). 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…mehr
Perhaps because of the wisdom received from our Romantic forbears about the purity of the child, 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 but its appeal is also rooted in the dual concepts of the child-like (innocent, angelic) and the childish (selfish, mischievous). 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," a term whose implications the contributors explore.
Markus P.J. Bohlmann is professor of English at Seneca College, Toronto. He is on the editorial board for Red Feather Journal: An International Journal of Children's Popular Culture and Children and Youth in Popular Culture. Sean Moreland has published numerous essays, primarily on literary and cinematic horror, as well as poetry and short fiction. He is chief editor of Postscripts to Darkness (pstdarkness.com), and is on the editorial board for the Edgar Allan Poe Review.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments v Foreword deleteSteven Bruhm 1 Foreword: Sweet Demons-And Us deleteJames R. Kincaid 7 Introduction: Holy Terrors and Other Musings on Monstrous-Childness (Markus P.J. Bohlmann and Sean Moreland) 9 Part I. Look Who's Stalking Monstrous Newborns and the Mothers Who Love Them: Critiques of Intensive Mothering in Twenty-First-Century Horror Films (Karen J. Renner) 27 "She needs more": The Villainization of Infertile Women in Horror Films (Brooke W. Edge) 42 When Procreation Becomes Perversion: Zombie Babies (Kristine Larsen) 61 Part II. Frankenstein's Kindergarten "My hideous cinematic progeny": Rosemary's Baby, Eraserhead and Frankenstein (Sarah Leventer) 79 "Doesn't everyone want their parents dead?" Monstrous Children in the Films of Ridley Scott delete(Colin Yeo) 96 Of Radioactive Sprites and Diminutive Tyrants: Hammer's Monstrous Children delete(Rebecca A. Brown) 107 Part III. The Adoption Papers (Adaptations) What About Grendel's Son? Shades of Monstrosity in Beowulf and Grendel delete(Danny Gorny) 125 Bringing Out Henry James's Little Monsters: Two Film Approaches to The Turn of the Screw delete(Fredrik Tydal) 142 The Monstrous Child: Replacement and Repetition in The Shining (Dustin Freeley) 160 Part IV. Troubled Teens and In-Betweens Demon Drugs or Demon Children: Take Your Pick (Sharon Packer) 173 Disability and Slasher Cinema's Unsung "Children" (John Edgar Browning) 177 Monstrous Mammies in Lee Daniels's Precious delete(Debbie Olson) 188 Violent Nymphs: Vampire and Vigilante Children in Contemporary Cinema delete(Lisa Cunningham) 206 Part V. Peek-a-boo: Future Monstrosities and Beyond "Insects trapped in amber": The Mutant Child Seer in Contemporary Spanish Horror Film delete(Jessica Balanzategui) 225 Hanna: The Child as Monster Who Is Supposed to Believe (Tamas Nagypal) 245 Afterword: Monstrously Yours? deleteKathryn Bond Stockton 261 Afterword deleteHarry M. Benshoff 267 About the Contributors 271 Index 275
Table of Contents Acknowledgments v Foreword deleteSteven Bruhm 1 Foreword: Sweet Demons-And Us deleteJames R. Kincaid 7 Introduction: Holy Terrors and Other Musings on Monstrous-Childness (Markus P.J. Bohlmann and Sean Moreland) 9 Part I. Look Who's Stalking Monstrous Newborns and the Mothers Who Love Them: Critiques of Intensive Mothering in Twenty-First-Century Horror Films (Karen J. Renner) 27 "She needs more": The Villainization of Infertile Women in Horror Films (Brooke W. Edge) 42 When Procreation Becomes Perversion: Zombie Babies (Kristine Larsen) 61 Part II. Frankenstein's Kindergarten "My hideous cinematic progeny": Rosemary's Baby, Eraserhead and Frankenstein (Sarah Leventer) 79 "Doesn't everyone want their parents dead?" Monstrous Children in the Films of Ridley Scott delete(Colin Yeo) 96 Of Radioactive Sprites and Diminutive Tyrants: Hammer's Monstrous Children delete(Rebecca A. Brown) 107 Part III. The Adoption Papers (Adaptations) What About Grendel's Son? Shades of Monstrosity in Beowulf and Grendel delete(Danny Gorny) 125 Bringing Out Henry James's Little Monsters: Two Film Approaches to The Turn of the Screw delete(Fredrik Tydal) 142 The Monstrous Child: Replacement and Repetition in The Shining (Dustin Freeley) 160 Part IV. Troubled Teens and In-Betweens Demon Drugs or Demon Children: Take Your Pick (Sharon Packer) 173 Disability and Slasher Cinema's Unsung "Children" (John Edgar Browning) 177 Monstrous Mammies in Lee Daniels's Precious delete(Debbie Olson) 188 Violent Nymphs: Vampire and Vigilante Children in Contemporary Cinema delete(Lisa Cunningham) 206 Part V. Peek-a-boo: Future Monstrosities and Beyond "Insects trapped in amber": The Mutant Child Seer in Contemporary Spanish Horror Film delete(Jessica Balanzategui) 225 Hanna: The Child as Monster Who Is Supposed to Believe (Tamas Nagypal) 245 Afterword: Monstrously Yours? deleteKathryn Bond Stockton 261 Afterword deleteHarry M. Benshoff 267 About the Contributors 271 Index 275
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