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Index
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Notes
Foreword
Introduction
Holy Terrors
Why Childness?
Do You Fear (for) Your Child? Of Screening (and Screaming) Children
Notes
Part I
LOOK WHO’S STALKING
Monstrous Newborns and the Mothers Who Love Them
Defining the Monstrous Newborn Narrative
It’s Alive Yet Again: Rebirthing Cohen’s Monstrous Infant
Forsaking All Others But Child: Grace
Conclusion
Notes
“She needs more”
About Infertility
Stigma on Film
Self-Obsession and Infertility
Abjection and Infertility
Mad Science and Infertility
Notes
When Procreation Becomes Perversion
Conception
Gestation and Abortion
Birth and Breast Feeding
Conclusion
Notes
Part II
FRANKENSTEIN’S KINDERGARTEN
“My hideous cinematic progeny”
Notes
Doesn’t everyone want their parents dead?
Defining the Child and the Monstrous
The Father’s Hubris and Masculine Oriented Technology
Conclusion
Notes
Of Radioactive Sprites and Diminutive Tyrants
Radioactive Sprites
Diminutive Tyrant
Conclusion: Growing Up Monstrous
Acknowledgments
Notes
Part III
THE ADOPTION PAPERS (ADAPTATIONS)
What About Grendel’s Son?
Notes
Bringing Out Henry James’s Little Monsters
The Location of Monstrosity
The Ambiguity of Innocence
From Innocence to Savagery
Coda
Notes
The Monstrous Child
Notes
Part IV
TROUBLED TEENS AND IN-BETWEENS
Demon Drugs or Demon Children
Notes
Disability and Slasher Cinema’s Unsung “Children”
Notes
Monstrous Mammies in Lee Daniels’s Precious
Precious-ness
Mammies, Pickaninnies and Orphans
Monstrous Mammy—Precious Jones
Conclusion
Notes
Violent Nymphs
Notes
Part V
PEEK-A-BOO: FUTURE MONSTROSITIES AND BEYOND
“Insects trapped in amber”
Seething Mutations in the Children of Franco: The Spirit of the Beehive and Raise Ravens
The Mutant Child Seer
The Devil’s Backbone
The Nameless
The Orphanage
Conclusion
Notes
Hanna
Sublime Accidents
Sublime, Which Sublime?
Childness and Distraction
Notes
Afterword
Notes
Afterword
About the Contributors
List of Names and Terms
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