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Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema's Holy Terrors

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Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema's Holy Terrors - Bohlmann, Markus P J (Editor), and Moreland, Sean (Editor)
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Perhaps because of the wisdom received from our Romantic forbears about the purity of the child, depictions of children as monsters have held a tremendous fascination for film audiences for decades. Numerous social factors have influenced the popularity and longevity of the monster-child trope but its appeal is also rooted in the dual concepts of the child-like (innocent, angelic) and the childish (selfish, mischievous). This collection of fresh essays discusses the representation of monstrous children in popular cinema ...

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Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema's Holy Terrors 2015, McFarland and Company, Inc., Jefferson

ISBN-13: 9780786494798

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