Bad seeds and holy terrors : the child villains of horror film /
Lennard, Dominic,
Bad seeds and holy terrors : the child villains of horror film / Dominic Lennard. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - SUNY series, horizons of cinema .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 -- Afterword.
9781438453309
Horror films--History and criticism.
Children in motion pictures.
Villains in motion pictures.
Electronic Books.
PN1995 / .B337 2014
Bad seeds and holy terrors : the child villains of horror film / Dominic Lennard. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource. - SUNY series, horizons of cinema .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 -- Afterword.
9781438453309
Horror films--History and criticism.
Children in motion pictures.
Villains in motion pictures.
Electronic Books.
PN1995 / .B337 2014