The uncanny child in transnational cinema : ghosts of futurity at the turn of the twenty-first century
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978 90 4853 779 2
10.5117/9789462986510
Autor
Balanzategui, Jessica
Institución
Resumen
The introduction outlines the book’s focus on the cinematic uncanny child,
a figure that challenges normalized ideologies of childhood by interrogating
the child’s associations with both personal and historical time. While the
uncanny child emerged as a significant presence in American horror films in
the 1980s, this figure became one of the genre ́s key unifying tropes at the turn
of the 21st century – not only in American films, but in films from around
the globe, particularly from Japan and Spain. These uncanny child films are
significant not just for their self-reflexive recalibration of a long-entrenched
trope of the horror genre, but because they evidence a globally resonant
shift in conceptualizations of childhood at the turn of the millennium.