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Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema

Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvJessica Balanzategui

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The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing an influential body of transnational horror films, largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and the US, Jessica Balanzategui shows how millennial uncanny child characters resist embodying growth and futurity, unravelling concepts to which the child's symbolic function is typically bound. The book proposes that complex cultural and industrial shifts at the turn of the millennium resulted in these potent cinematic renegotiations of the concept of childhood. By demonstrating both the culturally specific and globally resonant properties of these frightening visions of children who refuse to grow up, the book outlines the conceptual and aesthetic mechanisms by which long entrenched ideologies of futurity, national progress, and teleological history started to waver at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-01
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt610 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieFilm Culture in Transition
Antal sidor332
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041189244

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Dr. Jessica Balanzategui is Senior Lecturer in Media at RMIT, before which she was Senior Lecturer in Cinema and Screen Studies and Deputy Director of the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology. She is the author of The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema (Amsterdam UP, 2018), the founding editor of Amsterdam University Press’ book series, Horror and Gothic Media Cultures.

Introduction: The Child as Uncanny Other, Section One: Secrets and Hieroglyphs: The Uncanny Child in American Horror Film, 1. The Child and Adult Trauma in American Horror of the 1980s, 2. The Uncanny Child of the Millennial Turn, Section Two: Insects Trapped in Amber: The Uncanny Child in Spanish Horror Film, 3. The Child and Spanish Historical Trauma, 4. The Child Seer and the Allegorical Moment in Millennial Spanish Horror Cinema.., Section Three: Our Fear Has Taken on a Life of Its Own: The Uncanny Child in Japanese Horror Film, 5. The Child and Japanese National Trauma, 6. The Prosthetic Traumas of the Internal Alien in Millennial J-Horror Section Four Trauma’s Child: The Uncanny Child in Transnational Remakes and Co-productions, 7. The Transnational Uncanny Child, 8. Progress and Decay in the Twenty-first Century: The Postmodern Uncanny Child in The Others, 9. ‘Round and round, the world keeps spinning. When it stops, it’s just beginning:’ Analogue Ghosts and Digital Phantoms in The Ring, Conclusion