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oapen-20.500.12657-259652021-11-10T07:56:15Z The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema Balanzategui, Jessica Media and Communications Media and Communications History of Film Cultural Studies Film Childhood Studies Horror Contemporary Period bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema The uncanny child in transnational cinema illustrates how global horror film images of children reconceptualised childhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century, unravelling the child's long entrenched binding to ideologies of growth, futurity, and progress. The book analyses an influential body of horror films featuring subversive depictions of children and proposes that complex cultural and industrial shifts at the turn of the millennium resulted in potent cinematic renegotiations of the concept of childhood. In these transnational films - largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and America - the child resists embodying growth and futurity: 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 21st century. 2019-02-01 23:55 2020-03-27 15:48:21 2020-04-01T10:55:57Z 2020-04-01T10:55:57Z 2017-04-30 book 1004118 OCN: 1100491320 9789048537792 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25965 eng Film Culture in Transition application/pdf n/a 1004118.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789462986510 103682 10.5117/9789462986510 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9789048537792 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 103682 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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The uncanny child in transnational cinema illustrates how global horror film images of children reconceptualised childhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century, unravelling the child's long entrenched binding to ideologies of growth, futurity, and progress.
The book analyses an influential body of horror films featuring subversive depictions of children and proposes that complex cultural and industrial shifts at the turn of the millennium resulted in potent cinematic renegotiations of the concept of childhood. In these transnational films - largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and America - the child resists embodying growth and futurity: 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 21st century.
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