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Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film

Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film

Lennard, Dominic

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Horizons of Cinema

Film Studies

ISBN10: 1438453280
ISBN13: 9781438453286
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2015
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.

Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror's most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of The Exorcist (1973) to psychic ghost-girl Samara of The Ring (2002) and adopted terror Esther of Orphan (2009). Using a variety of critical approaches, including those of cinema studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors offers the first full-length study of these child monsters. In doing so, the book highlights horror as a topic of analysis that is especially pertinent socially and politically, exposing the genre as a site of deep ambivalence toward-and even hatred of-children.

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