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The 'Evil Child' in Literature, Film and Popular Culture
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Karen J. Renner
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-18 - Publisher: Routledge

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The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collection of essay
The 'Evil Child' in Literature, Film and Popular Culture
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Karen J. Renner
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-18 - Publisher: Routledge

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The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collection of essay
Evil Children in the Popular Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 214
Authors: Karen J. Renner
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-15 - Publisher: Springer

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Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J. Renner argues that the recent proliferation of stories about evil children demonstrates not a decl
Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures
Language: en
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Authors: Monica Flegel
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-19 - Publisher: Springer

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This book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in child agency.
Terrifying Texts
Language: en
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Authors: Cynthia J. Miller
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From Faust (1926) to The Babadook (2014), books have been featured in horror films as warnings, gateways, prisons and manifestations of the monstrous. Ancient g