The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Olson, Debbie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The child in many post-apocalyptic films occupies a unique space within the narrative, a space that oscillates between death and destruction, faith and hope. The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often functions to reaffirm the "rightness" of past systems of social order. This collection features critical articles that explore the role of the child character in post-apocalyptic cinema, including classic, recent, and international films, approached from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and cultural perspectives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978755741
• Artikelnr.: 74829546

Autorenporträt

Edited by Debbie Olson - Contributions by Eduardo Barros-Grela; María Bobadilla Pérez; Tarah Brookfield; Jennifer Brown; Glen Donnar; Aryak Guha; Mark Heimermann; James M. Hodapp; Frank Jacob; Cassandra L. Jones; Betül Atesçi Koçak; Eric D. Miller; Debbie

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 Ate¿çi Koçak Chapter 8: "Until the world deserves them": Representations of children in The Day After
Testament
and Threads
Tarah Brookfield Chapter 9: Emperor Tomato Ketchup: The Child as the Dictator of Mankind
Frank Jacob Chapter 10: The Specter of the Postcolonial Child and Faux Long Takes in Cuarón's Children of Men
James M. Hodapp Chapter 11: Persistently Ambivalent: Children
Race
Sexuality
and a Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood Interracial Future
Glen Donnar Chapter 12: "Not the Little Blonde Innocent You Picture": Race and "Innocent" Girlhood in The Hunger Games Fandom
Cassandra L. Jones