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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788160803321

Titolo

The child in post-apocalyptic cinema / / edited by Debbie Olson ; contributors, Eduardo Barros-Grela [and thirteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-7391-9429-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/6523

791.436523

Soggetti

Children in motion pictures

Apocalypse in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Monstrous Conceptions; 2 Sustenance for the Body and the Soul; 3 Perpetual Horizons; 4 The Child Is My Warrant; 5 Space and Children in Post-Apocalyptic Film; 6 When Disney Went Apocalyptic; 7 Children of Hope; 8 "Until the World Deserves Them"; 9 Emperor Tomato Ketchup; 10 The Specter of the Postcolonial Child and Faux Long Takes in Cuarón's Children of Men; 11 Persistently Ambivalent; 12 "Not the Little Blonde Innocent You Picture"; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>This collection explores and interrogates the complex role of the child character in the dystopian landscape of post-apocalyptic cinema, including classic, recent, and international films, approached from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and cultural perspectives.</span></span>