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The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema
Jessica Balanzategui and Judith Naeff
2017
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The uncanny child in transnational cinema illustrates how global horror film images of children reconceptualised childhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century, unravelling the child's long entrenched binding to ideologies of growth, futurity, and progress.
The book analyses an influential body of horror films featuring subversive depictions of children and proposes that complex cultural and industrial shifts at the turn of the millennium resulted in potent cinematic renegotiations of the concept of childhood. In these transnational films - largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and America - the child resists embodying growth and futurity: by demonstrating both the culturally specific and globally resonant properties of these frightening visions of children who refuse to grow up, the book outlines the conceptual and aesthetic mechanisms by which long entrenched ideologies of futurity, national progress, and teleological history started to waver at the turn of the 21st century.
This book is made open access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched KU Select 2016 Front List Collection
This book is made open access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched KU Select 2016 Front List Collection
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Keywords
- Art / Film & Video
- childhood
- Childhood studies
- Contemporary Period
- Cultural Studies
- Film
- Film, TV & radio
- Films, cinema
- History of Film
- Horror
- KUnlatched
- Media and Communications
- The arts
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema
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DOI: 10.5117/9789462986510Editions
