Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Olson, Debbie C.; Scahill, Andrew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Children have been a part of the cinematic landscape since the silent film era, yet children are rarely a part of the theoretical landscape of film analysis. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema, edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill, seeks to remedy that oversight. Throughout the over one-hundred year history of cinema, the image of the child has been inextricably bound to filmic storytelling and has been equally bound to notions of romantic innocence and purity. This collection reveals, however, that there is a body of work that provides a counter note of darkness to the traditional portraits of sweetness and light. Particularly since the mid-twentieth century, there are a growing number of cinematic works that depict childhood has as a site of knowingness, despair, sexuality, death, and madness. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739170267
• Artikelnr.: 38218129

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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