Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors - The Child Villains of Horror Film

Informationen zum Autor Dominic Lennard is Associate Lecturer at the University of Tasmania and the author of Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film , also published by SUNY Press. Klappentext Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children. Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror's most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of The Exorcist (1973) to psychic ghost-girl Samara of The Ring (2002) and adopted terror Esther of Orphan (2009). Using a variety of critical approaches, including those of cinema studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors offers the first full-length study of these child monsters. In doing so, the book highlights horror as a topic of analysis that is especially pertinent socially and politically, exposing the genre as a site of deep ambivalence toward-and even hatred of-children.

About the author

Dominic Lennard is Associate Lecturer at the University of Tasmania and the author of Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film, also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Dominic Lennard, Lennard Dominic
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2014
• EAN: 9781438453293
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-5329-3
• No. of pages: 181
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinem; Suny Series, Horizons of Cinem; SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film: styles & genres, Film Theory & Criticism, Film: styles and genres, Film history, theory or criticism