Bad Seeds and Holy Terrors

Bad Seeds and Holy TerrorsExamines the complexities and contradictions that arise when the monsters in the movies are children. Since the 1950s, children have provided some of horror's most effective and enduring villains, from dainty psychopath Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed (1956) and spectacularly possessed Regan MacNeil of The Exorcist (1973) to psychic ghost girl Samara of The Ring (2002) and adopted terror Esther of Orphan (2009). Using a variety of critical approaches,

and the writing accessible

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Explores the concept of nihilism and argues that it need not imply despair

Examines the importance of Leo Bersani's work for queer theory

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and the perception and affection of intimate relationships

as well as advances in techniques for measuring erosion

social cognitive

Focusing on a dozen or so skits and scenes

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[Contributors to the book include Sharon Anderson-Gold