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Pages: 198
Authors: Dominic Lennard
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-09 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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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
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Authors: Dominic Lennard
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Examines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children. Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horrorÂ’s
Misfit Children
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Misfits are often confused with outcasts. Yet misfits rather find themselves in-between that which fits and that which does not. This volume is interested in th
Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures
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This book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in child agency.
Evil Children in the Popular Imagination
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Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J. Renner argues that the recent proliferation of stories about evil children demonstrates not a decl