The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema: Youth Rebellion and Queer Spectatorship

Scahill, Andrew

The monstrous child is the allegorical queer child in various formations of horror cinema: the child with a secret, the child 'possessed' by Otherness, the changeling child, the terrible gang. This book explores the possibilities of 'not growing up' as a model for a queer praxis that confronts the notion of heternormative maturity.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-09-29

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137488503

DOI: 10.1057/9781137481320

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 193