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Intro
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Children and horror: A contradiction of terms?
Impossibility and absence: A new generation of horror
Viewing as a horrific child: Approach and structure
Defining children('s horror)
Chapter 1: Frankenstein to Frankenweenie: The evolution of children's horror in Hollywood cinema
Fun and fear: 'Child-friendly' horror in Code-era Hollywood
Children's horror in New Hollywood and beyond
Identifying the 'impossible'
Reanimation: The case of Frankenweenie
Chapter 2: Children behaving badly: Representing and addressing the horrific child in Gremlins
Reading the horrific child
Suitable for children? Gremlins' misleading paratexts
'Children of the night': Gremlins as carnivalesque pleasure
Classifying Gizmo: Gremlins as ratings allegory
Conclusion: Restoring the social order
Chapter 3: No grown-ups allowed: The horrific 'Crazyspace' of The Monster Squad
'We're the Monster Squad': Empowering the child by undermining the adult
Old friends: Ignorance, intertextuality and monstrous allies
De-sexing Dracula: The vampire as totalitarian authority
Conclusion: The afterlife of Crazyspace
Chapter 4: 'As normal as it could be': ParaNorman and the normalization of the horrific child
Un-othering the uncanny child
Freaks and geeks: ParaNorman's 'abnormal' production and aesthetics
Horror and monstrosity as catharsis
Conclusion: Problematizing the new normal with Hotel Transylvania
Chapter 5: A 'child-friendly' horror aesthetic: Challenging assumptions with Coraline
The subversive uncanniness of stop-motion horror for children
Children's horror films
Or, slashers without the slashing
Conclusion: Gendering the horrific child
Chapter 6: Man of the house: Gender, space and domestic violence in Monster House and The Hole
Gender, domestic space and the horror genre
Monster House: Becoming male by destroying the female
The Hole: Being the bigger man
Conclusion: Against 'happily ever after'
Conclusion: Expansions and absences of children's horror
The horrific child at home
The absent children of children's horror
Notes
Works cited
Index
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Children and horror: A contradiction of terms?
Impossibility and absence: A new generation of horror
Viewing as a horrific child: Approach and structure
Defining children('s horror)
Chapter 1: Frankenstein to Frankenweenie: The evolution of children's horror in Hollywood cinema
Fun and fear: 'Child-friendly' horror in Code-era Hollywood
Children's horror in New Hollywood and beyond
Identifying the 'impossible'
Reanimation: The case of Frankenweenie
Chapter 2: Children behaving badly: Representing and addressing the horrific child in Gremlins
Reading the horrific child
Suitable for children? Gremlins' misleading paratexts
'Children of the night': Gremlins as carnivalesque pleasure
Classifying Gizmo: Gremlins as ratings allegory
Conclusion: Restoring the social order
Chapter 3: No grown-ups allowed: The horrific 'Crazyspace' of The Monster Squad
'We're the Monster Squad': Empowering the child by undermining the adult
Old friends: Ignorance, intertextuality and monstrous allies
De-sexing Dracula: The vampire as totalitarian authority
Conclusion: The afterlife of Crazyspace
Chapter 4: 'As normal as it could be': ParaNorman and the normalization of the horrific child
Un-othering the uncanny child
Freaks and geeks: ParaNorman's 'abnormal' production and aesthetics
Horror and monstrosity as catharsis
Conclusion: Problematizing the new normal with Hotel Transylvania
Chapter 5: A 'child-friendly' horror aesthetic: Challenging assumptions with Coraline
The subversive uncanniness of stop-motion horror for children
Children's horror films
Or, slashers without the slashing
Conclusion: Gendering the horrific child
Chapter 6: Man of the house: Gender, space and domestic violence in Monster House and The Hole
Gender, domestic space and the horror genre
Monster House: Becoming male by destroying the female
The Hole: Being the bigger man
Conclusion: Against 'happily ever after'
Conclusion: Expansions and absences of children's horror
The horrific child at home
The absent children of children's horror
Notes
Works cited
Index