Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema

Debbie C. Olson is a PhD candidate at Oklahoma State University and lecturer at University of Texas at Arlington.Andrew Scahill is assistant professor in the Department of English at George Mason University.

• Introductionby Debbie Olson & Andrew ScahillChapter 1. "I See Dead People": Ghost-Seeing Children as Mediums and Mediators of Communication in Contemporary Horror Cinema.by Sage Leslie-McCarthyChapter 2. "I Can't Go On, I Must Go On": How Jeliza Rose Meets Alice and the Dark Side of Childhood in Terry Gilliam's Tidelandby Jayne SteelChapter 3. Wednesday's Child: Adolescent Outsiders in Contemporary British Cinemaby Stella M. HockenhullChapter 4. Wonka, Freud, and the Child Within: (Re)constructing lost childhood in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryby Adrian SchoberChapter 5. Representations of Childhood and Conflict in African Fiction Filmby Christine Singer & Lindiwe DoveyChapter 6. Pity the Child: Exploring Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Gummo (1997)by Sarah E. S. SinwellChapter 7. The Ideal Immigrant is a Child: Michou d'Auber and the Politics of Immigration in Franceby Nicole Beth WallenbrockChapter 8. "It's All For You, Damien!": Oedipal Horror and Racial Privilege in The Omen Seriesby Andrew ScahillChapter 9. Little Rebels in Mao's Era: Representing Children of the Past in Zhang Yuan's Little Red Flowers (Yuan Zhang, 2006)by Kiu-wai ChuChapter 10. "Batteries Have Run Out": Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteenby Gilles ChameroisChapter 11. A Krank's Dream: Conflicts Between Form and Narrative in City of Lost Childrenby Carolyn SalviChapter 12. Childhood, Ghost Images, and the Heterotopian Spaces of Cinema: The Child as Medium in The Othersby Christian StewenChapter 13. The Hitchcock Imp: Children and the Hyperreal in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963)by Debbie OlsonChapter 14. Experiencing Hüzün Through the Loss of Life, Limbs, and Love in Turtles Can Flyby Fran Hassencahl

This new volume offers insightful analyses of troubled and troubling children in the movies. Olson and Scahill have collected an impressive array of scholarship, focusing not just on how the child is figured in Western horror and fantasy traditions, but also within African, Asian, and Middle Eastern contexts. This volume will be of interest to anyone studying film genre, the sociocultural constructions of childhood, and the vagaries of globalization.