Horrifying children : hauntology and the legacy of children's television / Lauren Stephenson, Robert Edgar and John Marland.
| Other author | Stephenson, Lauren, editor. |
| Other author | Edgar, Robert (Writer of children's stories), editor. |
| Other author | Marland, John, editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2024]. |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xv, 254 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Hauntology and the legacy of children's television |
| Contents | Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Edwardian legacy and children's fiction -- Part One Hauntings and Spectres -- 1 'What is it like to be dead and a ghost? Oh, do tell me Tom, I've been simply longing to know': Hauntology and spectrality in -- 2 Coming of age in The Owl Service: England and the uncertain future (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns) -- 3 'Oh please, let us come undone!' States of independence: Female temporality in the supernatural children's television and lit |
| Contents | 4 'It came from beneath the sink': Children's horror television as an uncanny mirror (Merinda Staubli) -- 5 An adult nightmare: Garbage Pail Kids and the fear of the queer child (Max Hart) -- 6 The transgender twist: Mermen and gender nonconformity in Round the Twist (Jackson Phoenix Nash) -- 7 Weird doubling in Wes Craven's Stranger in Our House (1978) (Miranda Corcoran) -- 8 Suburban eerie: The Demon Headmaster (BBC 1, 1996-98) and The Demon Headmaster (CBBC, 2019) as neoliberal folk horror ( -- 9 'My Carnaby cassock': Jimmy Savile, Jim'll Fix It and Top of the Pops (Benjamin Halligan) |
| Contents | Part Two Memory, Process and Practice -- 10 The technological uncanny: The role of memory prosthetics in hauntological practice (Michael Schofield) -- 11 The pandemic and the bomb (Flannán Delaney) -- 12 Killing a cow on kids' TV: The case of Die Sendung mit der Maus (Alexander Hartley) -- 13 Confronting ghosts: The inherited horrors of the Kent State Shooting (Elizabeth Tussey) -- 14 Creeping dread in The Singing Ringing Tree: East German cinematic fairy tale as children's tea-time entertainment (Wayne |
| Contents | 15 'May cause drowsiness': A (false) memory of weekday morning television in the mid-1970s through the filter of prepubescent i -- 16 Bleak adventures in Kenneth Johnson's V (Keith McDonald) -- 17 Don't turn tail from horror: Using eco-horror in the secondary-school classroom (Hollie Adams) -- Index |
| Abstract | "A detailed and innovative book which examines weird, eerie and horrifying children's television and literature via critical analysis, memoir and autoethnography"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 24, 2024). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Horrifying children New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024 9781501390562 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism |
| Genre/form | Television criticism and reviews |
| Genre/form | Television criticism and reviews. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques d'émissions télévisées. |
| Genre/form | Critiques littéraires. |
| LCCN | 2023037680 |
| ISBN | 9781501390524 electronic book |
| ISBN | 150139052X electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781501390555 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1501390554 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1501390546 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781501390548 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| ISBN | paperback |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |