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Bad seeds and holy terrors : the child villains of horror film

Title
Bad seeds and holy terrors : the child villains of horror film / Dominic Lennard.
Author
Lennard, Dominic
Publication
  • Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
  • ©2014

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Description
xiv, 181 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
SUNY series, horizons of cinema
Uniform Title
SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
Subject
  • Horror films > History and criticism
  • Children in motion pictures
  • Villains in motion pictures
  • Horror films
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Reaching the age of anxiety: the 1950s and the horror of youth -- Spoiled rotten: horror's bourgeois brats -- A scary sight: the looking child -- "The hand that rocks the cradle": the child villain's malignant mom -- Vicious videos, missing mothers: The ring -- Little bastards: patriarchy's errant offspring in It's alive and The omen -- Past incarnations: The exorcist and The tyranny of childhood -- All fun and games till someone gets hurt: hating children's culture -- Too close for comfort: child villainy and pedophilic desire in Hard candy and Orphan.
Call Number
MFL 15-156
ISBN
  • 9781438453293
  • 1438453299
LCCN
2013046285
OCLC
869919510
Author
Lennard, Dominic, author.
Title
Bad seeds and holy terrors : the child villains of horror film / Dominic Lennard.
Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
Copyright Date
©2014
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
SUNY series, horizons of cinema
SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
MFL 15-156
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