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Children in the films of Steven Spielberg /

This collection, representing the work of scholars from a range of theoretical frameworks and disciplines, examines aspects of the preoccupation with children and childhood in Steven Spielberg's films. It includes essays on such films as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra-Terres...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schober, Adrian, 1974- (Editor ), Olson, Debbie C., 1961- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2016.
Colección:Children and youth in popular culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Adrian Schober
  • Spielberg and the kidult / Noel Brown
  • Unconditional love, hysterical motherhood and the lost/possessed child: Steven Spielberg's something evil / Adrian Schober
  • Ambiguous loss: the depiction of child abduction in Spielberg's early films / James Kendrick
  • "I'll be right here!": dealing with emotional trauma in and through E.T. the extraterrestrial / Peter Krämer
  • Children, innocence and agency in the films of Steven Spielberg / Ingrid E. Castro
  • Childhood, race, and the politics of dirt in Steven Spielberg's The color purple / Debbie Olson
  • Betwixt-and-between: reclaiming childhood in Hook / Jen Baker
  • Hooked on happy thoughts: new sincerity and Spielberg's troubled nostalgia for mythic childhood / Jessica Balanzategui and Gabrielle Kristjanson
  • Bipolar boys: Spielberg's manic-depressive children / Andrew M. Gordon
  • Trauma, loss, anxiety: Spielberg's missing children in Minority report, Jurassic Park and War of the worlds / Fran Pheasant-Kelly
  • Body consciousness and adolescence in The adventures of Tintin: the secret of the unicorn / Leonie Rutherford.