The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema : Ghosts of Futurity at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)

Introduction: The Child as Uncanny Other, Section One: Secrets and Hieroglyphs: The Uncanny Child in American Horror Film, 1. The Child and Adult Trauma in American Horror of the 1980s, 2. The Uncanny Child of the Millennial Turn, Section Two: Insects Trapped in Amber: The Uncanny Child in Spanish Horror Film, 3. The Child and Spanish Historical Trauma, 4. The Child Seer and the Allegorical Moment in Millennial Spanish Horror Cinema.., Section Three: Our Fear Has Taken on a Life of Its Own: The Uncanny Child in Japanese Horror Film, 5. The Child and Japanese National Trauma, 6. The Prosthetic Traumas of the Internal Alien in Millennial J-Horror Section Four Trauma’s Child: The Uncanny Child in Transnational Remakes and Co-productions, 7. The Transnational Uncanny Child, 8. Progress and Decay in the Twenty-first Century: The Postmodern Uncanny Child in The Others, 9. ‘Round and round, the world keeps spinning. When it stops, it’s just beginning:’ Analogue Ghosts and Digital Phantoms in The Ring, Conclusion