Monstrous children and childish monsters : essays on cinema's holy terrors / 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.
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.
Summary:
"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.""-- Provided by publisher.
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