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

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Child as Uncanny Other -- Section One Secrets and Hieroglyphs: The Uncanny Child in American Horror Film -- 1. The Child and Adult Trauma in American Horror of the 1980s -- 2. The Uncanny Child of the Millennial Turn -- Section Two Insects Trapped in Amber: The Uncanny Child in Spanish Horror Film -- 3. The Child and Spanish Historical Trauma -- 4. The Child Seer and the Allegorical Moment in Millennial Spanish Horror Cinema -- Section Three Our Fear Has Taken on a Life of Its Own: The Uncanny Child in Japanese Horror Film -- 5. The Child and Japanese National Trauma -- 6. The Prosthetic Traumas of the Internal Alien in Millennial J-Horror -- Section Four Trauma's Child: The Uncanny Child in Transnational Coproductions and Remakes -- 7. The Transnational Uncanny Child -- 8. Progress and Decay in the 21st Century -- The Postmodern Uncanny Child in The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001) -- 9. 'Round and round, the world keeps spinning. When it stops, it's just beginning' -- Analogue Ghosts and Digital Phantoms in The Ring (Gore Verbinski, 2002) -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- Artworks -- Music -- Film Index (by Country) -- Index.

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