The uncanny child in transnational cinema : ghosts of futurity at the turn of the twenty-first century
The introduction outlines the book’s focus on the cinematic uncanny child, a figure that challenges normalized ideologies of childhood by interrogating the child’s associations with both personal and historical time. While the uncanny child emerged as a significant presence in American horror films...
- Autores:
- Tipo de recurso:
- Book
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2017
- Institución:
- Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano
- Repositorio:
- Expeditio: repositorio UTadeo
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co:20.500.12010/16076
- Palabra clave:
- Uncanny child
Turn of the millennium
Futurity
Temporality
Horror film
Transnational
Cine
Fantasmas en el cine
Terror en el cine
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| Summary: | The introduction outlines the book’s focus on the cinematic uncanny child, a figure that challenges normalized ideologies of childhood by interrogating the child’s associations with both personal and historical time. While the uncanny child emerged as a significant presence in American horror films in the 1980s, this figure became one of the genre ́s key unifying tropes at the turn of the 21st century – not only in American films, but in films from around the globe, particularly from Japan and Spain. These uncanny child films are significant not just for their self-reflexive recalibration of a long-entrenched trope of the horror genre, but because they evidence a globally resonant shift in conceptualizations of childhood at the turn of the millennium. |
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