The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema - Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover, 0)

The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing an influential body of transnational horror films, largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and the US, Jessica Balanzategui shows how millennial uncanny child characters resist embodying growth and futurity, unravelling concepts to which the child's symbolic function is typically bound. The book proposes that complex cultural and industrial shifts at the turn of the millennium resulted in these potent cinematic renegotiations of the concept of childhood. 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 twenty-first century.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Film Culture in Transition
Release date:	November 2018
Authors:	Jessica Balanzategui
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	340
Edition:	0
ISBN-13:	978-9462986510
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
LSN:	9462986517
Barcode:	9789462986510

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