The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema : Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century / Jessica Balanzategui.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Film Culture in TransitionPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource : 14 halftonesContent type:- text
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- PN1995.9.C45
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Section One: Secrets and Hieroglyphs: The Uncanny Child in American Horror Film -- 1. The Child and Adult Trauma in American Horror of the 1980s -- 2. The Uncanny Child of the Millennial Turn -- Section Two: Insects Trapped in Amber: The Uncanny Child in Spanish Horror Film -- 3. The Child and Spanish Historical Trauma -- 4. The Child Seer and the Allegorical Moment in Millennial Spanish Horror Cinema -- Section Three: Our Fear Has Taken on a Life of Its Own: The Uncanny Child in Japanese Horror Film -- 5. The Child and Japanese National Trauma -- 6. The Prosthetic Traumas of the Internal Alien in Millennial J-Horror -- Section Four: Trauma's Child: The Uncanny Child in Transnational Coproductions and Remakes -- 7. The Transnational Uncanny Child -- 8. Progress and Decay in the 21st Century -- 9. 'Round and round, the world keeps spinning . When it stops, it's just beginning' -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- Artworks -- Music -- Film Index -- Index
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The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing an influential body of transnational horror films, largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and the US, Jessica Balanzategui shows how millennial uncanny child characters resist embodying growth and futurity, unravelling concepts to which the child's symbolic function is typically bound. The book proposes that complex cultural and industrial shifts at the turn of the millennium resulted in these potent cinematic renegotiations of the concept of childhood. By demonstrating both the culturally specific and globally resonant properties of these frightening visions of children who refuse to grow up, the book outlines the conceptual and aesthetic mechanisms by which long entrenched ideologies of futurity, national progress, and teleological history started to waver at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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