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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Main Author: Balanzategui, Jessica (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2018]
Series:Film culture in transition
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Summary: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 Balanzategui shows how millennial uncanny child characters resist embodying growth and futurity, unravelling concepts to which the child's symbolic function is typically bound. The book proposes that complex cultural and industrial shifts at the turn of the millennium resulted in these potent cinematic renegotiations of the concept of childhood. By demonstrating both the culturally specific and globally resonant properties of these frightening visions of children who refuse to grow up, the book outlines the conceptual and aesthetic mechanisms by which long entrenched ideologies of futurity, national progress, and teleological history started to waver at the turn of the twenty-first century
Item Description:Titel ist im Rahmen der Initiative Knowledge Unlatched frei zugänglich. - Ersatztitel für "Contemporary German crime fiction: a companion" hrsg. von Thomas W. Kniesche
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (331 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9789048537792
DOI:10.1515/9789048537792