Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema, edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill, is an edited collection that challenges notions of the innocent child through an exploration of the dark side of childhood in contemporary cinema. The contributors to this multidisciplinary study offer a global perspective that explores the multiple conditions of marginalized childhood as cinematically imagined within political, geographical, sociological, and cultural contexts.
Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema, edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill, is an edited collection that challenges notions of the innocent child through an exploration of the dark side of childhood in contemporary cinema. The contributors to this multidisciplinary study offer a global perspective that explores the multiple conditions of marginalized childhood as cinematically imagined within political, geographical, sociological, and cultural contexts.
Debbie C. Olson is a PhD candidate at Oklahoma State University and lecturer at University of Texas at Arlington. Andrew Scahill is assistant professor in the Department of English at George Mason University.
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Introduction by Debbie Olson & Andrew Scahill Chapter 1. "I See Dead People": Ghost-Seeing Children as Mediums and Mediators of Communication in Contemporary Horror Cinema. by Sage Leslie-McCarthy Chapter 2. "I Can't Go On, I Must Go On": How Jeliza Rose Meets Alice and the Dark Side of Childhood in Terry Gilliam's Tideland by Jayne Steel Chapter 3. Wednesday's Child: Adolescent Outsiders in Contemporary British Cinema by Stella M. Hockenhull Chapter 4. Wonka, Freud, and the Child Within: (Re)constructing lost childhood in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Adrian Schober Chapter 5. Representations of Childhood and Conflict in African Fiction Film by Christine Singer & Lindiwe Dovey Chapter 6. Pity the Child: Exploring Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Gummo (1997) by Sarah E. S. Sinwell Chapter 7. The Ideal Immigrant is a Child: Michou d'Auber and the Politics of Immigration in France by Nicole Beth Wallenbrock Chapter 8. "It's All For You, Damien!": Oedipal Horror and Racial Privilege in The Omen Series by Andrew Scahill Chapter 9. Little Rebels in Mao's Era: Representing Children of the Past in Zhang Yuan's Little Red Flowers (Yuan Zhang, 2006) by Kiu-wai Chu Chapter 10. "Batteries Have Run Out": Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen by Gilles Chamerois Chapter 11. A Krank's Dream: Conflicts Between Form and Narrative in City of Lost Children by Carolyn Salvi Chapter 12. Childhood, Ghost Images, and the Heterotopian Spaces of Cinema: The Child as Medium in The Others by Christian Stewen Chapter 13. The Hitchcock Imp: Children and the Hyperreal in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) by Debbie Olson Chapter 14. Experiencing Hüzün Through the Loss of Life, Limbs, and Love in Turtles Can Fly by Fran Hassencahl
Introduction by Debbie Olson & Andrew Scahill Chapter 1. "I See Dead People": Ghost-Seeing Children as Mediums and Mediators of Communication in Contemporary Horror Cinema. by Sage Leslie-McCarthy Chapter 2. "I Can't Go On, I Must Go On": How Jeliza Rose Meets Alice and the Dark Side of Childhood in Terry Gilliam's Tideland by Jayne Steel Chapter 3. Wednesday's Child: Adolescent Outsiders in Contemporary British Cinema by Stella M. Hockenhull Chapter 4. Wonka, Freud, and the Child Within: (Re)constructing lost childhood in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Adrian Schober Chapter 5. Representations of Childhood and Conflict in African Fiction Film by Christine Singer & Lindiwe Dovey Chapter 6. Pity the Child: Exploring Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Gummo (1997) by Sarah E. S. Sinwell Chapter 7. The Ideal Immigrant is a Child: Michou d'Auber and the Politics of Immigration in France by Nicole Beth Wallenbrock Chapter 8. "It's All For You, Damien!": Oedipal Horror and Racial Privilege in The Omen Series by Andrew Scahill Chapter 9. Little Rebels in Mao's Era: Representing Children of the Past in Zhang Yuan's Little Red Flowers (Yuan Zhang, 2006) by Kiu-wai Chu Chapter 10. "Batteries Have Run Out": Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen by Gilles Chamerois Chapter 11. A Krank's Dream: Conflicts Between Form and Narrative in City of Lost Children by Carolyn Salvi Chapter 12. Childhood, Ghost Images, and the Heterotopian Spaces of Cinema: The Child as Medium in The Others by Christian Stewen Chapter 13. The Hitchcock Imp: Children and the Hyperreal in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) by Debbie Olson Chapter 14. Experiencing Hüzün Through the Loss of Life, Limbs, and Love in Turtles Can Fly by Fran Hassencahl
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