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The 'Evil Child' in Literature, Film and Popular Culture

Sprachen: Englisch. 24,6 cm / 18,9 cm / 1,1 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 208 Seiten
EAN 9781138841819
Veröffentlicht September 2014
Verlag/Hersteller Routledge
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Beschreibung

This collection of essays, written by a global range of scholars, examines a fascinating array of 'evil children' and the cultural work that they perform, drawing upon sociohistorical, cinematic, and psychological approaches. This book was originally published as two special issues of Literature Interpretation Theory.

Portrait

Karen J. Renner is Lecturer in American Literature at Northern Arizona University, USA. Her research interests include 19th and 20th century American Literature, Popular Culture, Childhood Studies, and the Horror genre. She has written many chapters and journal articles, and is the author of Perverse Subjects: Drunks, Gamblers, and Prostitutes in Antebellum America (2011).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Evil Children in Film and Literature Karen Renner 2. My Baby Ate the Dingo: The Visual Construction of the Monstrous Infant in Horror Film Steffen Hantke 3. Monstrous Children as Harbingers of Mortality: A Psychological Analysis of Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child Daniel Sullivan and Jeff Greenberg 4. Spoil the Child: Unsettling Ethics and the Representation of Evil William Wandless 5. Private Lessons from Dumbledore's "Chamber of Secrets": The Riddle of the Evil Child in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Holly Blackford 6. Terrifying Tots and Hapless Homes: Undoing Modernity in Recent Bollywood Cinema Meheli Sen 7. "The Power of Christ Compels You": Holy Water, Hysteria, and the Oedipal Psychodrama in The Exorcist Sara Williams 8. How to See the Horror: The Hostile Fetus in Rosemary's Baby and Alien A. Robin Hoffman 9. Extreme Human Makeovers: Supernanny, the Unruly Child, and Adulthood in Crisis Catherine Fowler and Rebecca Kambuta

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