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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Debbie Olson - Contributions by Eduardo Barros-Grela; María Bobadilla Pérez; Tarah Brookfield; Jennifer Brown; Glen Donnar; Aryak Guha; Mark Heimermann; James M. Hodapp; Frank Jacob; Cassandra L. Jones; Betül Atesçi Koçak; Eric D. Miller; Debbie Klappentext This collection explores and interrogates the complex role of the child character in the dystopian landscape of post-apocalyptic cinema, including classic, recent, and international films, approached from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and cultural perspectives. Zusammenfassung This collection explores and interrogates the complex role of the child character in the dystopian landscape of post-apocalyptic cinema! including classic! recent! and international films! approached from a variety of theoretical! methodological! and cultural perspectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Debbie OlsonChapter 1: Monstrous Conceptions: Reading Cronenberg's The Brood (1979) and Anton Leader's Children of the Damned (1963), Aryak GuhaChapter 2: Sustenance for the Body and the Soul: Children as a Vision of the Future of Humanity, and a Reflection of Past Sins in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema, Jennifer BrownChapter 3: Perpetual Horizons: Reproductive Futurity in Post-Apocalyptic Films, Mark HeimermannChapter 4: The Child is my Warrant: Virtue, Violence and The Road's Radical Humanism, Joseph Wiinikka-LydonChapter 5: Space and Children in Post-Apocalyptic Film: The Road and Les Temps du Loup, Eduardo Barros-Grela and María Bobadilla Pérez Chapter 6: When Disney Went Apocalyptic: The Symbolism of Apocalyptic Images in a Post-9/11 World, Eric D. Miller Chapter 7: Children of Hope: Portrayal of Children in Post-Apocalyptic Films after 9/11, Betül Ate¿çi KoçakChapter 8: "Until the world deserves them": Representations of children in The Day After, Testament, and Threads, Tarah BrookfieldChapter 9: Emperor Tomato Ketchup: The Child as the Dictator of Mankind, Frank JacobChapter 10: The Specter of the Postcolonial Child and Faux Long Takes in Cuarón's Children of Men, James M. HodappChapter 11: Persistently Ambivalent: Children, Race, Sexuality, and a Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood Interracial Future, Glen DonnarChapter 12: "Not the Little Blonde Innocent You Picture": Race and "Innocent" Girlhood in The Hunger Games Fandom, Cassandra L. Jones...
