Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema's Holy Terrors by Markus P.J. Bohlmann

Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema's Holy Terrors
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Markus P.J. Bohlmann

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Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema's Holy Terrors
Markus P.J. Bohlmann with Karen J. Renner, Kristine Larsen, Dustin Freeley, John Edgar Browning, Tamas Nagypal, Lisa Cunningham, Sarah Leventer, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Steven Bruhm, James R. Kincaid, Jessica Balanzategui, Rebecca A. Brown, Sean Moreland, Danny Gorny, Sharon Packer, Colin Yeo, Brooke W. Edge, Harry M. Benshoff, Debbie Olson, Fredrik Tydal

287 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

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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 popu...