The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema : Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century /

Contents: The Child as Uncanny Other / Section One / Secrets and Hieroglyphs: The Uncanny Child in American Horror Film / Chapter One: The Child and Adult Trauma in American Horror of the 1980s / Chapter Two: The Uncanny Child of the Millennial Turn / Section Two / Insects Trapped in Amber: The Unca...

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Main Author: Balanzategui, Jessica (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Child as Uncanny Other; 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 Trauma6. 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; The Postmodern Uncanny Child in The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001); 9. 'Round and round, the world keeps spinning. When it stops, it's just beginning'; Analogue Ghosts and Digital Phantoms in The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002); Conclusion; Works Cited; Filmography; Artworks; Music; Film Index (by Country); Index.