Bad seeds and holy terrors : the child villains of horror film / / Dominic Lennard

• Autore: Lennard Dominic
• Pubblicazione: Albany, New York : , : State University of New York Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/6164
• Soggetto topico: Horror films - History and criticism; Children in motion pictures; Villains in motion pictures
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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 ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""7. Past Incarnations: The Exorcist and the Tyranny of Childhood ""; ""Little Dimi ""; ""Why you do this to me? ""; ""Come into me . . .""; ""Conclusion ""; ""8. All Fun and Games till Someone Gets Hurt: Hating Children's Culture "" ; ""No Place Like Home: Deep Red and the Iconography of Childhood """"Model Behavior: Child's Play ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""9. Too Close for Comfort: Child Villainy and Pedophilic Desire in Hard Candy and Orphan ""; ""Naughty but Nice: Hard Candy ""; ""Surgical Separation: The Viewer and the Pedophile ""; ""Adult Irresponsibility, or the Child with No Name ""; ""The Reveal That Conceals: Excusing Improper Desire in Orphan ""; ""Fucking Children ""; ""I don't know what to do!: Blurred Vision, Blurred Boundaries ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Afterword ""; ""Notes ""; ""Works Cited"" ; ""Index""
• Titolo autorizzato: Bad seeds and holy terrors
• ISBN: 1-4384-5330-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812108203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series, horizons of cinema.