Abstract:The introduction outlines the book's focus on the cinematic uncanny child, a figure that challenges normalized ideologies of childhood by interrogating the child's associations with both personal and historical time. While the uncanny child emerged as a significant presence in American horror films in the 1980s, this figure became one of the genre´s key unifying tropes at the turn of the 21st century-not only in American films, but in films from around the globe, particularly from Japan and Spain. These uncann… Show more
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