Screening Children in Post-Apocalypse Film and Television

This collection examines the representation of children in contemporary apocalyptic films and television, arguing that they inhabit conflicting roles as either harbingers of disaster or symbols of survival and hope.

List of contents

Introduction
Debbie Olson
Chapter 1. Post-Apocalyptic Mosaic: The Road and the Image of the Child as an Eschatological Symbol of Hope.
Nick Petrov
Chapter 2. Into the Woods: Mother Nature as Protector of Young Female Survivors in Post-Apocalyptic Film and Television
Elaine Morton
Chapter 3. Youth on its Own: Growing Up in a Lonely Post-Apocalyptic World
Denis Newiak
Chapter 4. Reanimating the past: Post-Apocalypse and the First Nation Child in Cargo (Howling & Ramke, 2017)
Matthew Smith
Chapter 5. The (Zombie) Child, the Animal, and 'the Human Part' in AMC's The Walking Dead
Monica Sousa
Chapter 6. (Re)storying Collective Ethics: Tracing Absences in Figurations of Childhood in Post-apocalyptic Film
Cory Jobb
Chapter 7. "Don't Stray Too Far:" [Robot] Parents and [Posthuman] Children
Ingrid E. Castro and Joseph V. Giunta
Chapter 8. "Being" and "Becoming" of the "Unbecoming" Child: Hybrid Children in the Post-Apocalyptic world of Sweet Tooth
Suniti Madaan and Cijo Joy
Chapter 9. "It's just not yours anymore": [Dis]Ability, Childhood, and the Death of Innocence in The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
Debbie Olson

About the author

Debbie Olson is associate professor at Missouri Valley College.

Product details

• Authors: Debbie Olson
• Assisted by: Debbie Olson (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666918670
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-867-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Children and Youth in Popular Culture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, Age groups: children