Horror Films for Children
Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 20 April 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350265127
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 26 bw illus 497
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Long description:
Children and horror are often thought to be an incompatible meeting of audience and genre, beset by concerns that children will be corrupted or harmed through exposure to horror media. Nowhere is this tension more clear than in horror films for adults, where the demonic child villain is one of the genre's most enduring tropes. However, horror for children is a unique category of contemporary Hollywood cinema in which children are addressed as an audience with specific needs, fears and desires, and where child characters are represented as sympathetic protagonists whose encounters with the horrific lead to cathartic, subversive and productive outcomes.
Horror Films for Children examines the history, aesthetics and generic characteristics of children's horror films, and identifies the 'horrific child' as one of the defining features of the genre, where it is as much a staple as it is in adult horror but with vastly different representational, interpretative and affective possibilities. Through analysis of case studies including blockbuster hits (Gremlins), cult favourites (The Monster Squad) and indie darlings (Coraline), Catherine Lester asks, what happens to the horror genre, and the horrific children it represents, when children are the target audience?
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter One: Frankenstein to Frankenweenie: the evolution of children's horror in Hollywood cinema
Chapter Two: Children Behaving Badly: representing and addressing the horrific child in Gremlins
Chapter Three: No Grown-Ups Allowed: PG-13 and the horrific 'Crazyspace' of The Monster Squad
Chapter Four: 'As normal as it could be': ParaNorman and the normalization of the horrific child
Chapter Five: A 'Child-Friendly' Horror Aesthetic: challenging assumptions with Coraline
Chapter Six: Man of the House: gender, space and domestic violence in Monster House and The Hole
Conclusion: Expansions and Absences of Children's Horror
Horror Films for Children: Fear and Pleasure in American Cinema
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