Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema (eBook)

Debbie Olson is lecturer at the University of Texas at Arlington.

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 PérezChapter 6: When Disney Went Apocalyptic: The Symbolism of Apocalyptic Images in a Post-9/11 World, Eric D. MillerChapter 7: Children of Hope: Portrayal of Children in Post-Apocalyptic Films after 9/11, Betül Ateşçi KoçakChapter 8: “Until the world deserves them”: Representations of children in The Day After, Testament, and Threads, Tarah BrookfieldChapter 9: Emperor Tomato Ketchup: The Child as the Dictator of Mankind, Frank JacobChapter 10: The Specter of the Postcolonial Child and Faux Long Takes in Cuarón’s Children of Men, James M. HodappChapter 11: Persistently Ambivalent: Children, Race, Sexuality, and a Post-Apocalyptic Hollywood Interracial Future, Glen DonnarChapter 12: “Not the Little Blonde Innocent You Picture”: Race and “Innocent” Girlhood in The Hunger Games Fandom, Cassandra L. Jones