Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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The child in many post-apocalyptic films occupies a unique space within the narrative, a space that oscillates between death and destruction, faith and hope. The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often functions to reaffirm the “rightness” of past systems of social order. This collection features critical articles that explore the role of the child character in post-apocalyptic cinema, including classic, recent, and international films, approached from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and cultural perspectives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-03-06
Mått162 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt494 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor244
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780739194287

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Introduction, Debbie OlsonChapter 1: Monstrous Conceptions: Reading Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979) and Anton Leader’s Children of the Damned (1963), Aryak GuhaChapter 2: Sustenance for the Body and the Soul: Children as a Vision of the Future of Humanity, and a Reflection of Past Sins in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema, Jennifer BrownChapter 3: Perpetual Horizons: Reproductive Futurity in Post-Apocalyptic Films, Mark HeimermannChapter 4: The Child is my Warrant: Virtue, Violence and The Road’s Radical Humanism, Joseph Wiinikka-LydonChapter 5: Space and Children in Post-Apocalyptic Film: The Road and Les Temps du Loup, Eduardo Barros-Grela and María Bobadilla Pérez Chapter 6: When Disney Went Apocalyptic: The Symbolism of Apocalyptic Images in a Post-9/11 World, Eric D. Miller Chapter 7: Children of Hope: Portrayal of Children in Post-Apocalyptic Films after 9/11, Betül Atesçi KoçakChapter 8: “Until the world deserves them”: Representations of children in The Day After, Testament, and Threads, Tarah Bro

This edited collection brings childhood studies into an important conversation with a dominant genre of recent years: post-apocalyptic cinema. Olson unites a group of international scholars who examine some expected films (The Road and The Children of Men), but also some unexpected ones (The Omega Man, I Am Legend, Dawn of the Dead, and Daybreakers). The result is a diverse and fascinating examination of how, as Olson puts it, ‘the Child . . . defines the lost past/present and becomes a motivational, almost sacred image to spur on reclamation of the future.’