The revolting child in horror cinema : youth rebellion and queer spectatorship / by Andrew Scahill.
| Author/creator | Scahill, Andrew, 1977- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- 1. Revolting Children: A Taxonomy of the Monstrous Child -- 2. Malice in Wonderland: The Terrible Performativity of Childhood -- 3. Demons are a Girl's Best Friend: Possession as Transgression -- 4. Raising Hell: Abuse, Rejection, and the Unwanted Queer Child -- 5. It Takes a Child to Raze a Village: Demonizing Youth Rebellion -- 6. Afterthoughts: Fear of a Queer Playground. |
| Abstract | Drawing together film theory, queer theory, childhood studies, and reception studies, The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema examines the "revolting child" in such films as The Bad Seed, Village of the Damned, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, and The Omen. It argues that monstrous child stands in for the queer child by taking on its various incarnations: the child with a secret, the child "taken over" by monstrosity in adolescence, the changeling child, and the cabal of queer youth. The child monster is both revolting and repellant, and yet is also a body in revolt against patriarchal institutions like state, family, and religion. As such, they offer a variety of subject positions for the spectator: from a pedophobic rage directed at children to a queer identification with the revolting child and against a heteronormative culture. Indeed, the cinema of revolting children allows us to have our child and beat it too. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes filmography. |
| Access restriction | Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). |
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| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Scahill, Andrew, 1977- Revolting child in horror cinema 9781137488503 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9781137481320 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1137481323 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781349577927 (print) |
| ISBN | 1349577928 (print) |
| ISBN | 9781137481306 (EPUB) |
| ISBN | 1137481307 (EPUB) |
| ISBN | (print) |
| ISBN | (print) |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1057/9781137481320 |
| Standard identifier# | 40025457060 |
| Stock number | 811602 Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgraveconnect.com |
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