{"product_id":"bad-seeds-and-holy-terrors-dominic-lennard-9781438453286","title":"Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors: The Child Villains of Horror Film","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the 1950s, children have provided some of horror's most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of \u003ci\u003eThe Bad Seed\u003c\/i\u003e (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of \u003ci\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/i\u003e (1973) to psychic ghost-girl Samara of \u003ci\u003eThe Ring\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) and adopted terror Esther of \u003ci\u003eOrphan\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). Using a variety of critical approaches, including those of cinema studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, \u003ci\u003eBad Seeds and Holy Terrors\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first full-length study of these child monsters. In doing so, the book highlights horror as a topic of analysis that is especially pertinent socially and politically, exposing the genre as a site of deep ambivalence toward-and even hatred of-children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dominic Lennard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438453280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438453286\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Dominic Lennard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48449595769087,"sku":"9781438453286","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c7ef2e7e-83c9-4fdd-979a-7ce90141453f.jpg?v=1777264088","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bad-seeds-and-holy-terrors-dominic-lennard-9781438453286","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}