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Index
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Little Horrors: Introduction
To Catch Them Unawares: Horror’s Evil Innocents
The Plot
It’s Only a Movie
1. Reaching the Age of Anxiety: The 1950s and the Horror of Youth
Troubled Teens: The Juvenile Delinquent on Film
Sowing Bad Seeds: Creating the Child as Monster
Conclusion
2. Spoiled Rotten: Horror’s Bourgeois Brats
Killing with Class: The Bad Seed
Heirs Aberrant: Village of the Damned
Conclusion
3. A Scary Sight: The Looking Child
An Uncertain Zoom: Power and Perspective in Halloween
The To-Be-Looked-At Child
Eyes That Paralyze: Village of the Damned
Conclusion
4. “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle”: The Child Villain’s Malignant Mom
Treachery on the Home Front
Sons of Bitches: The Brood
“All of them Witches”: Maternal Alienation and Rosemary’s Baby
Conclusion
5. Vicious Videos, Missing Mothers: The Ring
Murderous Work: The Career Mom and the Killer
Home Alone and Hating It: The Postmodern Child
Anxiety Reruns from the Golden Age
Conclusion
6. Little Bastards: Patriarchy’s Errant Offspring in It’s Alive and The Omen
The End Times for Patriarchy: The Omen
Black Majesties
“Somehow the identities get all mixed up”: Fatherhood, Science, and Semen in It’s Alive
Semen Stains
Conclusion
7. Past Incarnations: The Exorcist and the Tyranny of Childhood
Little Dimi
“Why you do this to me?”
“Come into me …”
Conclusion
8. All Fun and Games till Someone Gets Hurt: Hating Children’s Culture
No Place Like Home: Deep Red and the Iconography of Childhood
Model Behavior: Child’s Play
Conclusion
9. Too Close for Comfort: Child Villainy and Pedophilic Desire in Hard Candy and Orphan
Naughty but Nice: Hard Candy
Surgical Separation: The Viewer and the Pedophile
Adult Irresponsibility, or the Child with No Name
The Reveal That Conceals: Excusing Improper Desire in Orphan
“Fucking Children”
“I don’t know what to do!”: Blurred Vision, Blurred Boundaries
Conclusion
Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Back Cover
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