The Undead Child in Popular Culture (eBook, PDF)

Representations of Childhoods Past, Present, and Preserved
Redaktion: Martin, Craig; Olson, Debbie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explore the theme of undeadness as it applies to cultural constructions of the child.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040107126
• Artikelnr.: 72273102

Autorenporträt

Craig Martin teaches screen studies in the Department of Film, Games and Animation at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Debbie Olson is an associate professor of English at Missouri Valley College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. "Silk is a Child's Skin: Marx, Engels, and the Modern Moloch"
2. "'That canal gees me the creeps': Haunted Bodies of Water and
Geographies of Dead Childhood in the Cinema of Lynne Ramsay"
3. "Beyond Zombies: Resurrected Young People and Incongruity in Les
Revenants, The Returned (US) and Resurrection"
4. "White Futures Only: Racialized Undeadness in The Last of Us"
5. "Not Quite Dead: The Function of Ghost Children in William Mumler's
Spirit Photography"
6. "Nightmares about Fossils: Spectral Children, Colonial Legacies and
Intergenerational Trauma in the Work of Hilary Mantel"
7. "Taken from Life": Lewis Carroll's Photographic Memory and the Cur(s)ing
of Sleeping Beauties Sent to Wonderland
8. Fraught and Fragile Domesticity: Visions of the Undead Child(hood) in
Walter de la Mare's Broomstick
9. "Written on the Body: Traumatic Encounters with the Dead Child in Sharp
Objects (HBO, 2018)"
10. "But You're Just a Girl": The Haunting Specter of Childhood in Buffy
the Vampire Slayer
11. "Undead Child, Undead Parents: 'Honor Crime' and Matricide in Yashar
Kemal's To Crush the Serpent"
12. "'They Never Come Back ... as Boys': The Necropolitics of Hitler's
Children in Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Education for Death (1943)"