Lost and othered children in contemporary cinema

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    • Olson, Debbie C.
    • Scahill, Andrew

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Lost and othered children in contemporary cinema

edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill

Lexington Books, c2014

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographies and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

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 Huzun Through the Loss of Life, Limbs, and Love in Turtles Can Fly by Fran Hassencahl

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