The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 6. March 2015
1 pages
978-1-9787-5574-1 (ISBN)
Description
The child in many post-apocalyptic films occupies a unique space within the narrative, a space that oscillates between death and destruction, faith and hope. The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often functions to reaffirm the "rightness" of past systems of social order. This collection features critical articles that explore the role of the child character in post-apocalyptic cinema, including classic, recent, and international films, approached from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and cultural perspectives.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
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United States
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Professional and scholarly
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27 b/w photos;
ISBN-13
978-1-9787-5574-1 (9781978755741)
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Debbie Olson
The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema
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Introduction, Debbie Olson
Chapter 1: Monstrous Conceptions: Reading Cronenberg's The Brood (1979) and Anton Leader's Children of the Damned (1963), Aryak Guha
Chapter 2: Sustenance for the Body and the Soul: Children as a Vision of the Future of Humanity, and a Reflection of Past Sins in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema, Jennifer Brown
Chapter 3: Perpetual Horizons: Reproductive Futurity in Post-Apocalyptic Films, Mark Heimermann
Chapter 4: The Child is my Warrant: Virtue, Violence and The Road's Radical Humanism, Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon
Chapter 5: Space and Children in Post-Apocalyptic Film: The Road and Les Temps du Loup, Eduardo Barros-Grela and María Bobadilla Pérez
Chapter 6: When Disney Went Apocalyptic: The Symbolism of Apocalyptic Images in a Post-9/11 World, Eric D. Miller
Chapter 7: Children of Hope: Portrayal of Children in Post-Apocalyptic Films after 9/11, Betül Atesçi Koçak
Chapter 8: "Until the world deserves them": Representations of children in The Day After, Testament, and Threads, Tarah Bro
Chapter 1: Monstrous Conceptions: Reading Cronenberg's The Brood (1979) and Anton Leader's Children of the Damned (1963), Aryak Guha
Chapter 2: Sustenance for the Body and the Soul: Children as a Vision of the Future of Humanity, and a Reflection of Past Sins in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema, Jennifer Brown
Chapter 3: Perpetual Horizons: Reproductive Futurity in Post-Apocalyptic Films, Mark Heimermann
Chapter 4: The Child is my Warrant: Virtue, Violence and The Road's Radical Humanism, Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon
Chapter 5: Space and Children in Post-Apocalyptic Film: The Road and Les Temps du Loup, Eduardo Barros-Grela and María Bobadilla Pérez
Chapter 6: When Disney Went Apocalyptic: The Symbolism of Apocalyptic Images in a Post-9/11 World, Eric D. Miller
Chapter 7: Children of Hope: Portrayal of Children in Post-Apocalyptic Films after 9/11, Betül Atesçi Koçak
Chapter 8: "Until the world deserves them": Representations of children in The Day After, Testament, and Threads, Tarah Bro
