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While at first glance it may seem strange that so many films portray children as monstrous characters, the essays in this collection begin by recognizing the pervasive popularity, and the wide variety, of such characterizations. Perhaps because of the wisdom received from our Romantic forebears about the purity of the child, fictional imaginings of children as monsters exercise a tremendous fascination for film audiences, and have for several decades.
These opposing, and yet co-dependent, tendencies are reflected in the modern connotations of the phrases child-like (innocent) and childish (selfish, perhaps even evil.) Yet unlike most previous scholarly work on this cultural phenomenon, the essays in this collection do not remain arrested by this reductive binary, but strive to unearth the many possibilities, meanings and forms that are hidden by the two-faced mask our imaginings of children all too often wear.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments v
Foreword deleteSteven Bruhm 1
Foreword: Sweet Demons—And Us deleteJames R. Kincaid 7
Introduction: Holy Terrors and Other Musings on Monstrous-Childness (Markus P.J. Bohlmann and Sean Moreland) 9
Part I. Look Who's Stalking
Monstrous Newborns and the Mothers Who Love Them: Critiques of Intensive Mothering in Twenty-First-Century Horror Films (Karen J. Renner) 27
"She needs more": The Villainization of Infertile Women in Horror Films (Brooke W. Edge) 42
When Procreation Becomes Perversion: Zombie Babies (Kristine Larsen) 61
Part II. Frankenstein's Kindergarten
"My hideous cinematic progeny": Rosemary's Baby, Eraserhead and Frankenstein (Sarah Leventer) 79
"Doesn't everyone want their parents dead?" Monstrous Children in the Films of Ridley Scott delete(Colin Yeo) 96
Of Radioactive Sprites and Diminutive Tyrants: Hammer's Monstrous Children delete(Rebecca A. Brown) 107
Part III. The Adoption Papers (Adaptations)
What About Grendel's Son? Shades of Monstrosity in Beowulf and Grendel delete(Danny Gorny) 125
Bringing Out Henry James's Little Monsters: Two Film Approaches to The Turn of the Screw delete(Fredrik Tydal) 142
The Monstrous Child: Replacement and Repetition in The Shining (Dustin Freeley) 160
Part IV. Troubled Teens and In-Betweens
Demon Drugs or Demon Children: Take Your Pick (Sharon Packer) 173
Disability and Slasher Cinema's Unsung "Children" (John Edgar Browning) 177
Monstrous Mammies in Lee Daniels's Precious delete(Debbie Olson) 188
Violent Nymphs: Vampire and Vigilante Children in Contemporary Cinema delete(Lisa Cunningham) 206
Part V. Peek-a-boo: Future Monstrosities and Beyond
"Insects trapped in amber": The Mutant Child Seer in Contemporary Spanish Horror Film delete(Jessica Balanzategui) 225
Hanna: The Child as Monster Who Is Supposed to Believe (Tamas Nagypal) 245
Afterword: Monstrously Yours? deleteKathryn Bond Stockton 261
Afterword deleteHarry M. Benshoff 267
About the Contributors 271
Index 275
