The Undead Child in Popular Culture : Representations of Childhoods Past, Present, and Preserved (Paperback)

Introduction

1.???? “Silk is a Child’s Skin: Marx, Engels, and the Modern Moloch” ???????????????????????????????

2.???? “‘That canal gees me the creeps’: Haunted Bodies of Water and Geographies of Dead Childhood in the Cinema of Lynne Ramsay”

3.???? “Beyond Zombies: Resurrected Young People and Incongruity in Les Revenants, The Returned (US) and Resurrection”

4.???? “White Futures Only: Racialized Undeadness in The Last of Us”

5.???? ?“Not Quite Dead: The Function of Ghost Children in William Mumler’s Spirit Photography”

6.???? “Nightmares about Fossils: Spectral Children, Colonial Legacies and Intergenerational Trauma in the Work of Hilary Mantel”

7.???? “Taken from Life”: Lewis Carroll’s Photographic Memory and the Cur(s)ing of Sleeping Beauties Sent to Wonderland

8.???? Fraught and Fragile Domesticity: Visions of the Undead Child(hood) in Walter de la Mare’s Broomstick

9.???? “Written on the Body: Traumatic Encounters with the Dead Child in Sharp Objects (HBO, 2018)”

10.? “But You’re Just a Girl”: The Haunting Specter of Childhood in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

11.? “Undead Child, Undead Parents: ‘Honor Crime’ and Matricide in Yashar Kemal’s To Crush the Serpent”

12.? “‘They Never Come Back ... as Boys’: The Necropolitics of Hitler's Children in Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Education for Death (1943)”