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Informationen zum Autor Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies! University of Glasgow. She is the author of 'British Youth Television: Cynicism and Enchantment' (2001) and 'Interpreting Television' (2005). Exploring the disruptive power of the child in films made for an adult audience across popular films, including "Taxi Driver" and Japanese horror, and 'art-house' productions like "Mirror" and "Pan's Labyrinth", this book investigates why the figure of the child has a significant impact on the visual aspects and storytelling potential of cinema. Zusammenfassung Exploring the disruptive power of the child in films made for an adult audience across popular films, including "Taxi Driver" and Japanese horror, and 'art-house' productions like "Mirror" and "Pan's Labyrinth", this book investigates why the figure of the child has a significant impact on the visual aspects and storytelling potential of cinema. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Intoduction2. Hide and Seek: children and ghosts in contemporary Japanese film and Art3. Dirty Little White Girls: child sexuality and race fromfilms and performers such as Lillian Gish in 'Broken Blossoms', via ShirleyTemple to 'Lolita', 'Taxi Driver' and 'Man on Fire'4. War's children (working title): the child figure in films about war5. Child Actors (working title): including child performance,child stars, questions of intentionConclusionBibliographyIndex
