"This collection examines the representation of children in contemporary apocalyptic films and television, arguing that they inhabit conflicting roles as either harbingers of disaster or symbols of survival and hope"--
This collection examines the representation of children in contemporary apocalyptic films and television, arguing that they inhabit conflicting roles as either harbingers of disaster or symbols of survival and hope.
This collection examines the childs role in contemporary post-apocalyptic films and television.. By exploring the function of child characters within a dystopian framework, this volume illustrates how traditional notions of childhood are tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connection that often works to reaffirm the rightness of past systems of social order.
Introduction
Debbie Olson
Chapter
1. Post-Apocalyptic Mosaic: The Road and the Image of the Child as an
Eschatological Symbol of Hope.
Nick Petrov
Chapter
2. Into the Woods: Mother Nature as Protector of Young Female
Survivors in Post-Apocalyptic Film and Television
Elaine Morton
Chapter
3. Youth on its Own: Growing Up in a Lonely Post-Apocalyptic World
Denis Newiak
Chapter
4. Reanimating the past: Post-Apocalypse and the First Nation Child
in Cargo (Howling & Ramke, 2017)
Matthew Smith
Chapter
5. The (Zombie) Child, the Animal, and the Human Part in AMCs The
Walking Dead
Monica Sousa
Chapter
6. (Re)storying Collective Ethics: Tracing Absences in Figurations of
Childhood in Post-apocalyptic Film
Cory Jobb
Chapter
7. "Dont Stray Too Far:" [ Robot] Parents and [ Posthuman] Children
Ingrid E. Castro and Joseph V. Giunta
Chapter
8. Being and Becoming of the Unbecoming Child: Hybrid Children
in the Post-Apocalyptic world of Sweet Tooth
Suniti Madaan and Cijo Joy
Chapter
9. Its just not yours anymore: [ Dis]Ability, Childhood, and the
Death of Innocence in The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
Debbie Olson
Debbie Olson is associate professor at Missouri Valley College.