Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors
Download or Read eBook Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors PDF written by Dominic Lennard and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Dominic Lennard |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2014-10-09 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781438453309 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1438453302 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors by : Dominic Lennard
Book excerpt: Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror's most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of The Exorcist (1973) to psychic ghost-girl Samara of The Ring (2002) and adopted terror Esther of Orphan (2009). Using a variety of critical approaches, including those of cinema studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors offers the first full-length study of these child monsters. In doing so, the book highlights horror as a topic of analysis that is especially pertinent socially and politically, exposing the genre as a site of deep ambivalence toward—and even hatred of—children.
