Screening Children in Post-apocalypse Film and Television Hardback
Edited by Debbie Olson
Part of the Children and Youth in Popular Culture series
Hardback
Description
This collection examines the child’s role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.
In these narratives, children have occupied conflicting positions—as harbingers of disaster or as symbols of survival and hope.
The child in many post-apocalyptic narratives occupies a unique space that oscillates between civilization and tribalism, human and animal, life and death, hope and despair, faith and nothingness.
By exploring the ways the child character functions within a dystopian framework, the chapters in this book illustrate how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the “rightness†of past systems of social order.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:16/11/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781666918670
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:16/11/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781666918670
