Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema

Herausgeber: Olson, Debbie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection explores and interrogates the complex role of the child character in the dystopian landscape of post-apocalyptic cinema, including classic, recent, and international films, approached from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and cultural perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9780739194287
• ISBN-10: 0739194283
• Artikelnr.: 42023791

Autorenporträt

Debbie Olson is lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Debbie Olson
Chapter 1: Monstrous Conceptions: Reading Cronenberg's The Brood (1979) and
Anton Leader's Children of the Damned (1963), Aryak Guha
Chapter 2: Sustenance for the Body and the Soul: Children as a Vision of
the Future of Humanity, and a Reflection of Past Sins in Post-Apocalyptic
Cinema, Jennifer Brown
Chapter 3: Perpetual Horizons: Reproductive Futurity in Post-Apocalyptic
Films, Mark Heimermann
Chapter 4: The Child is my Warrant: Virtue, Violence and The Road's Radical
Humanism, Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon
Chapter 5: Space and Children in Post-Apocalyptic Film: The Road and Les
Temps du Loup, Eduardo Barros-Grela and María Bobadilla Pérez
Chapter 6: When Disney Went Apocalyptic: The Symbolism of Apocalyptic
Images in a Post-9/11 World, Eric D. Miller
Chapter 7: Children of Hope: Portrayal of Children in Post-Apocalyptic
Films after 9/11, Betül Atesçi Koçak
Chapter 8: "Until the world deserves them": Representations of children in
The Day After, Testament, and Threads, Tarah Bro