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Andrew Scahill - The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema: Youth Rebellion and Queer Spectatorship - 9781137488503 - V9781137488503
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The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema: Youth Rebellion and Queer Spectatorship

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Description for The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema: Youth Rebellion and Queer Spectatorship Hardcover. The monstrous child is the allegorical queer child in various formations of horror cinema: the child with a secret, the child 'possessed' by Otherness, the changeling child, the terrible gang. This book explores the possibilities of 'not growing up' as a model for a queer praxis that confronts the notion of heternormative maturity. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 376.
The monstrous child is the allegorical queer child in various formations of horror cinema: the child with a secret, the child 'possessed' by Otherness, the changeling child, the terrible gang. This book explores the possibilities of 'not growing up' as a model for a queer praxis that confronts the notion of heternormative maturity.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
193
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137488503
SKU
V9781137488503
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Ref
99-15

About Andrew Scahill
Andrew Scahill is Lecturer in the Department of English at Georgetown University, USA.

Reviews for The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema: Youth Rebellion and Queer Spectatorship
“The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema is an insightful contribution to queer studies, communication/media studies and childhood studies. While providing needed scholarship on the figure of the child in horror cinema, Scahill also opens up new and exciting possibilities for queer viewing practices and spectator identity negotiations, simultaneously highlighting possibilities and impossibilities, pleasure and disruptions” (Sasha Cocarla, Queer Studies in ... Read more

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