Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema's Holy Terrors

by John Edgar Browning, Karen J. Renner, James R. Kincaid

Perhaps because of the wisdom received from our Romantic forbears about the purity of the child, depictions of children as monsters have held a tremendous fascination for film audiences for decades. Numerous social factors have influenced the popularity and longevity of the monster-child trope but its appeal is also rooted in the dual concepts of the child-like (innocent, angelic) and the childish (selfish, mischievous). This collection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786494794
• ISBN13: 9780786494798
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher