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03348aam a2200337 i 4500 001 3E5CB1D66B5711E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150206s2015 ncua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015004998 020 $a 0786494794 020 $a 9780786494798 035 $a (OCoLC)903213151 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN1995.9.C45 M77 2015 082 00 $a 791.43/6523 $2 23 245 00 $a Monstrous children and childish monsters : $b essays on cinema's holy terrors / $c edited by Markus P.J. Bohlmann and Sean Moreland ; forewords by Steven Bruhm and James R. Kincaid ; afterwords by Kathryn Bond Stockton and Harry M. Benshoff. 264 1 $a Jefferson, North Carolina : $b McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, $c [2015] 300 $a viii, 278 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "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.""-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: holy terrors and other musings on "monstrous"-childness / Markus P.J. Bohlmann and Sean Moreland -- 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 -- "She needs more": the villainization of infertile women in horror films / Brooke W. Edge -- When procreation becomes perversion: zombie babies / Kristine Larsen -- Frankenstein's kindergarten. "My hideous cinematic progeny": Rosemary's baby, Eraserhead and Frankenstein / Sarah Leventer -- "Doesn't everyone want their parents dead?" monstrous children in the films of Ridley Scott / Colin Yeo -- Of radioactive sprites and diminutive tyrants: Hammer's monstrous children / Rebecca A. Brown -- The adoption papers (adaptations). What about Grendel's son? shades of monstrosity in Beowulf and Grendel / Danny Gorny -- Bringing out Henry James's little monsters: two film approaches to The turn of the screw / Fredrik Tydal -- The monstrous child: replacement and repetition in The shining / Dustin Freeley -- Troubled teens and in-betweens. Demon drugs or demon children: take your pick / Sharon Packer -- Disability and slasher cinema's unsung "children" / John Edgar Browning -- Monstrous mammies in Lee Daniels' Precious / Debbie Olson -- Violent nymphs: vampire and vigilante children in contemporary cinema / Lisa Cunningham -- Peek-a-boo: future monstrosities and beyond. "Insects trapped in amber": the mutant child seer in contemporary Spanish horror film / Jessica Balanzategui -- Hanna: the child as monster who is supposed to believe / Tamas Nagypal. 650 0 $a Children in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Horror films $x History and criticism. 700 1 $a Bohlmann, Markus P.J., $d 1978- $e editor. 700 1 $a Moreland, Sean, $d 1975- $e editor. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230706013316.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3E5CB1D66B5711E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search