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Lennard Dominic |
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Bad seeds and holy terrors : the child villains of horror film / / Dominic Lennard |
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Albany, New York : , : State University of New York Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (198 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Horror films - History and criticism |
Children in motion pictures |
Villains in motion pictures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""List of Figures ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Little Horrors: Introduction ""; ""To Catch Them Unawares: Horror's Evil Innocents ""; ""The Plot""; ""It's Only a Movie ""; ""1. Reaching the Age of Anxiety: The 1950's and the Horror of Youth ""; ""Troubled Teens: The Juvenile Delinquent on Film ""; ""Sowing Bad Seeds: Creating the Child as Monster ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""2. Spoiled Rotten: Horror's Bourgeois Brats ""; ""Killing with Class: The Bad Seed ""; ""Heirs Aberrant: Village of the Damned ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""3. A Scary Sight: The Looking Child "" |
""An Uncertain Zoom: Power and Perspective in Halloween """"The To-Be-Looked-At Child ""; ""Eyes That Paralyze: Village of the Damned ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""4. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle: The Child Villain's Malignant Mom ""; ""Treachery on the Home Front ""; ""Sons of Bitches: The Brood ""; ""All of them Witches: Maternal Alienation and Rosemary's Baby ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""5. Vicious Videos, Missing Mothers: The Ring ""; ""Murderous Work: The Career Mom and the Killer ""; ""Home Alone and Hating It: The Postmodern Child ""; ""Anxiety Reruns from the Golden Age "" |
""Conclusion """"6. Little Bastards: Patriarchy's Errant Offspring in It's Alive and The Omen ""; ""The End Times for Patriarchy: The Omen ""; ""Black Majesties ""; ""Somehow the identities get all mixed up: Fatherhood, Science, and Semen in It's Alive ""; ""Semen Stains ""; |
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