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The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema

The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema
Author: Debbie Olson;Eduardo Barros-Grela;María Bobadilla Pérez;Tarah Brookfield;Jennifer Brown
Price: $148.50
ISBN-10: 0739194291
ISBN-13: 9780739194294
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The child in many post-apocalyptic films occupies a unique space within the narrative, a space that oscillates between death and destruction, faith and hope. The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often functions to reaffirm the “rightness” of past systems of social order. This collection features critical articles that explore the role of the child character in post-apocalyptic cinema, including classic, recent, and international films, approached from a variety of theoretical, methodological, and cultural perspectives.