Possessed Child Narratives in Literature and Film - Contrary States

Informationen zum Autor ADRIAN SCHOBER has a PhD in Literature and Film from Monash University, Australia. His research interests include science fiction, horror, Hitchcock, Kubrick, and children's literature - this is his first book. Klappentext This book undertakes a study of the trope of possessed child in literature and film. It argues that the possessed child is fundamentally an American phenomenon which, first, may be traced to the Calvinist bias of the US as a nation founded on Puritanism and, second, to the rise of Catholicism in that country, to which Puritanism owes its origins. Zusammenfassung This book undertakes a study of the trope of possessed child in literature and film. It argues that the possessed child is fundamentally an American phenomenon which! first! may be traced to the Calvinist bias of the US as a nation founded on Puritanism and! second! to the rise of Catholicism in that country! to which Puritanism owes its origins. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The New England Connection: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and James's The Turn of the Screw God is Dead: William Peter Blatty/ William Friedkin's The Exorcist East Meets West: Frank de Felitta/ Robert Wise's Audrey Rose Culture Shock: James Herbert's Shrine For Children Only? William Mayne's It and Victor Kelleher's Del-Del Conclusion Notes Filmography Bibliography Index

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The New England Connection: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and James's The Turn of the Screw God is Dead: William Peter Blatty/ William Friedkin's The Exorcist East Meets West: Frank de Felitta/ Robert Wise's Audrey Rose Culture Shock: James Herbert's Shrine For Children Only? William Mayne's It and Victor Kelleher's Del-Del Conclusion Notes Filmography Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: A Schober, A. Schober, Adrian Schober
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.07.2004
• EAN: 9781403935106
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-3510-6
• Seiten: 224
• Serien: Crime Files; Crime Files S; Crime Files
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Family, Social groups, Film History, Sociology: family & relationships, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Fiction Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Film and Television Studies, Film and TV History, Screen Studies, Motion pictures—History, Motion pictures and television, Film history, theory & criticism, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, children;culture;film;Narrative