The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema: Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

by Jessica Balanzategui

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462986517
• ISBN13: 9789462986510
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"