The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing an influential body of transnational horror films, largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and the US, Jessica Balanzategu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Balanzategui, Jessica, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2017
[2018]
Colección:Film culture in transition.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009431217106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Child as Uncanny Other / Section One / Secrets and Hieroglyphs: The Uncanny Child in American Horror Film / Chapter One: The Child and Adult Trauma in American Horror of the 1980s / Chapter Two: The Uncanny Child of the Millennial Turn / Section Two / Insects Trapped in Amber: The Uncanny Child in Spanish Horror Film / Chapter Three: The Child and Spanish Historical Trauma / Chapter Four: The Child Seer and the Allegorical Moment in / Millennial Spanish Horror Cinema. / Section Three / Our Fear Has Taken on a Life of Its Own: The Uncanny Child in Japanese Horror Film / Chapter Five: The Child and Japanese National Trauma / Chapter Six: The Prosthetic Traumas of the Internal Alien in Millennial J-Horror / Section Four[-]Trauma's Child: The Uncanny Child in Transnational Remakes and Co-productions / Chapter Seven: The Transnational Uncanny Child/ Chapter Eight: Progress and Decay in the Twenty-first Century: The Postmodern Uncanny Child in The Others / Chapter Nine: 'Round and round, the world keeps spinning. When it stops, it's just beginning:' Analogue Ghosts and Digital Phantoms in The Ring.