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Staats, Hans.

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Don't Look Now: The Child in Horror Cinema and Media.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Don't Look Now: The Child in Horror Cinema and Media./
作者:	Staats, Hans.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
面頁冊數:	238 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-05A(E).
標題:	Comparative literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10192937
ISBN:	9781369433463

Don't Look Now: The Child in Horror Cinema and Media.
Staats, Hans.

Don't Look Now: The Child in Horror Cinema and Media. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 238 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2016.

This dissertation examines the definition of the monstrous child in horror cinema and media. Spanning from 1955 to 2009 and beyond, the question of what counts as a monstrous child illuminates a perennial cinematic preoccupation with monstrosity and the relation between the normal and the pathological. Films like The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955), The Bad Seed (Mervyn LeRoy, 1956), Village of the Damned (Wolf Rilla, 1960), The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961), Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973), Profondo rosso/Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975), Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976), Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978), Child's Play (Tom Holland, 1988), and Orphan (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2009) explore the normative and pathological specificity of childhood across a range of historical, religious, and economic awakenings and crises, from the work of Jonathan Edwards and Henry James to Alfred Hitchcock and Brian De Palma. Ultimately the monstrous child is not a force of evil, but a rebellious and motivated figure at odds with a range of social and cultural norms found in the classic and modern American and European horror film. Specifically, the cultural function of the figure of the child in horror films works against norms of good and evil it is often linked to. By extension, the monstrous child and its function vary according to different historical periods and major historical events during the years 1955-2009 and beyond. These include: the Great Depression, World War II, Britain's age of affluence, Italy's Years of Lead or anni di piombo, the Cold War, 9/11, and the financial meltdown of 2008. In short, the monstrous child is a rebel with a cause, a figure that assumes a vital dimension of modern consciousness. To that end, I propose that a theoretical and historical analysis of the monstrous child in horror cinema and media during the twentieth and twenty-first century should be approached via three concepts: innocence, criminality, and anxiety. Focusing on the child in horror, I expand the theoretical scope of my dissertation to include: film and media studies, genre and popular culture, gender and sexuality, and psychoanalysis.

ISBN: 9781369433463Subjects--Topical Terms:

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