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Informationen zum Autor Adrian Schober serves on the editorial board of Red Feather: An International Journal of Children's Popular Culture.Debbie Olson is lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington, and for Dallas County Community College District. Klappentext This collection, representing the work of scholars from a range of theoretical frameworks and disciplines, examines aspects of the preoccupation with children and childhood in Steven Spielberg’s films. It includes essays on such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun, andmore. Zusammenfassung This collection! representing the work of scholars from a range of theoretical frameworks and disciplines! examines aspects of the preoccupation with children and childhood in Steven Spielberg's films. It includes essays on such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind! E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial! Empire of the Sun! and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Adrian Schober Chapter 1: Spielberg and the Kidult, Noel BrownChapter 2: Unconditional Love, Hysterical Motherhood and the Lost/Possessed Child: Steven Spielberg's Something Evil, Adrian SchoberChapter 3: Ambiguous Loss: The Depiction of Child Abduction in Spielberg's Early Films, James KendrickChapter 4: "I'll be right here!" Dealing with Emotional Trauma in and through E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Peter KrämerChapter 5: Children, Innocence and Agency in the Films of Steven Spielberg, Ingrid E. CastroChapter 6: Childhood, Race, and the Politics of Dirt in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple, Debbie OlsonChapter 7: Betwixt-and-Between: Reclaiming Childhood in Hook, Jen Baker Chapter 8: Hooked on Happy Thoughts: New Sincerity and Spielberg's Troubled Nostalgia for Mythic Childhood, Jessica Balanzategui and Gabrielle Kristjanson Chapter 9: Bipolar Boys: Spielberg's Manic-Depressive Children, Andrew M. GordonChapter 10: Trauma, Loss, Anxiety: Spielberg's Missing Children in Minority Report, Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds, Fran Pheasant-KellyChapter 11: Body Consciousness and Adolescence in The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of The Unicorn, Leonie Rutherford...
